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 Kenya and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 oboe 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 Yusef Lateef to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gang of Four. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Funkadelic,
Pere Ubu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eyeless In Gaza,
R.M.O.,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
This Heat,
Flipper,
Little Man,
Yellowson,
Urselle,
The Mojo Men,
Cameo,
Maurizio,
Traffic Nightmare,
Shuggie Otis,
Radiohead,
Iggy Pop,
Sällskapet,
Gang Starr,
Pulsallama,
Fat Boys,
Sam Rivers,
Sight & Sound,
Reuben Wilson,
Faraquet,
Crash Course in Science,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Swell Maps,
Underground Resistance,
Tropical Tobacco,
Mark Hollis,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Count Five,
Jacques Brel,
John Coltrane,
Circle Jerks,
Cymande,
10cc,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Radiopuhelimet,
Average White Band,
Eve St. Jones,
Camouflage,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Pop Group,
Symarip,
Minor Threat,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Animal Collective,
La Düsseldorf,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Zero Boys,
Mr. Review,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.