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 Malawi and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Delhi.
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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nirvana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marcia Griffiths,
Hardrive,
Funky Four + One,
Flash Fearless,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Skarface,
JFA,
Bootsy Collins,
Moby Grape,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lucky Dragons,
This Heat,
The Dirtbombs,
Radiopuhelimet,
Slick Rick,
Pantaleimon,
John Holt,
The Dead C,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Massinfluence,
Terry Callier,
Mantronix,
Man Parrish,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Electric Prunes,
Oblivians,
The Knickerbockers,
Aswad,
Niagra,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lyres,
Lou Reed,
K-Klass,
Joe Finger,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Offenders,
Henry Cow,
Neil Young,
Suburban Knight,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Normal,
Warren Ellis,
Hot Snakes,
Eric Copeland,
Vainqueur,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sixth Finger,
Eric Dolphy,
The J.B.'s,
48th St. Collective,
The Moody Blues,
Boz Scaggs,
Scratch Acid,
Cybotron,
Goldenarms,
Michelle Simonal,
Subhumans,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.