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 Lebanon and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Joey Negro to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ultra Naté. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
the Association,
Faust,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gong,
The Seeds,
Nas,
Heaven 17,
Joyce Sims,
FM Einheit,
Eric Copeland,
Janne Schatter,
Reuben Wilson,
June Days,
Ultravox,
Scott Walker,
Pere Ubu,
Ralphi Rosario,
Inner City,
Symarip,
Gang Green,
Shuggie Otis,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Half Japanese,
Donald Byrd,
Country Teasers,
Circle Jerks,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bauhaus,
A Certain Ratio,
Absolute Body Control,
Severed Heads,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Anakelly,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Au Pairs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Neil Young,
Lou Reed,
Sun Ra,
This Heat,
Ice-T,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Pop Group,
The Dirtbombs,
The Beau Brummels,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Joe Finger,
The Cure,
Public Image Ltd.,
Peter and Kerry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crash Course in Science,
Sonic Youth,
F. McDonald,
Intrusion,
Newcleus,
The Golliwogs,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.