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 Cameroon and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Jeff Lynne to the grime 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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Bootsy Collins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Quadrant,
Fluxion,
Nirvana,
Kurtis Blow,
Eric Dolphy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Wings,
Intrusion,
The Detroit Cobras,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sandy B,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gregory Isaacs,
These Immortal Souls,
Robert Wyatt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alice Coltrane,
Joensuu 1685,
E-Dancer,
Brand Nubian,
Amon Düül,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ponytail,
Aural Exciters,
Carl Craig,
Joy Division,
Newcleus,
Alison Limerick,
Scan 7,
Crash Course in Science,
Nik Kershaw,
Amazonics,
Animal Collective,
Barclay James Harvest,
UT,
Terry Callier,
Angry Samoans,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pierre Henry,
Groovy Waters,
the Sonics,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cluster,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gang of Four,
Cymande,
Anakelly,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Stooges,
Suburban Knight,
Scientists,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Audionom,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Morten Harket,
Scrapy,
Moebius,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.