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 South Africa and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Hong Kong.
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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Technova to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Moebius,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eric B and Rakim,
Rotary Connection,
Grandmaster Flash,
Terrestrial Tones,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Harpers Bizarre,
Brand Nubian,
Tres Demented,
Alphaville,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Fuzztones,
Andrew Hill,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Alison Limerick,
Goldenarms,
Rosa Yemen,
D'Angelo,
Pylon,
Pierre Henry,
Public Enemy,
Massinfluence,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sparks,
Sixth Finger,
Ludus,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Cymande,
H. Thieme,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Glenn Branca,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Monks,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Litter,
The Real Kids,
Yazoo,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Last Poets,
Radiopuhelimet,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ralphi Rosario,
LL Cool J,
The Happenings,
Organ,
Sister Nancy,
Wolf Eyes,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ituana,
Clear Light,
Connie Case,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Q and Not U,
Hot Snakes,
Camberwell Now,
The Cowsills,
The Grass Roots,
Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey.
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.