Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Ethiopia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The Mighty Diamonds to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
the Swans,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kurtis Blow,
Pharoah Sanders,
Letta Mbulu,
Ornette Coleman,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ludus,
Sound Behaviour,
Howard Jones,
The Slits,
Wasted Youth,
D'Angelo,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Vainqueur,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Vladislav Delay,
Young Marble Giants,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Arab on Radar,
Grey Daturas,
Soft Cell,
Moebius,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
New Order,
Guru Guru,
The Gap Band,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Move,
Theoretical Girls,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Reuben Wilson,
Parry Music,
Sugar Minott,
The Cure,
Main Source,
H. Thieme,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sister Nancy,
Glenn Branca,
Agent Orange,
The Music Machine,
Mo-Dettes,
Kenny Larkin,
Radio Birdman,
John Foxx,
Fad Gadget,
Mary Jane Girls,
Jacques Brel,
A Flock of Seagulls,
EPMD,
Neil Young,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Organ,
Pantytec,
Q and Not U,
Gang Green,
Gang Starr,
Girls At Our Best!,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.