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 Mongolia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Michelle Simonal to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Red Krayola record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fortunes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Trumans Water,
The Happenings,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Banda Bassotti,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Echospace,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Monolake,
The Remains,
The Smoke,
Arab on Radar,
Judy Mowatt,
Reuben Wilson,
The Monochrome Set,
Eurythmics,
Ronnie Foster,
Grauzone,
Guru Guru,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marmalade,
MDC,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Magma,
Kevin Saunderson,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Brothers Johnson,
Skaos,
Masters at Work,
Crooked Eye,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lalo Schifrin,
Barry Ungar,
Swell Maps,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Los Fastidios,
Albert Ayler,
Kurtis Blow,
Scott Walker,
Suicide,
Loose Ends,
Soulsonic Force,
New York Dolls,
The Neon Judgement,
Smog,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Clear Light,
Roxy Music,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Blackbyrds,
U.S. Maple,
Avey Tare,
Icehouse,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Audionom,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Radio Birdman,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.