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 Niger and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Remains 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 The Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Sexual Harrassment tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Enemy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Neil Young,
Michelle Simonal,
Susan Cadogan,
Donny Hathaway,
Mr. Review,
Model 500,
The Selecter,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Junior Murvin,
La Düsseldorf,
Chrome,
The Grass Roots,
Excepter,
Talk Talk,
John Coltrane,
R.M.O.,
The Young Rascals,
Black Bananas,
Fatback Band,
Thee Headcoats,
Bauhaus,
The Golliwogs,
Dual Sessions,
Radiohead,
Roger Hodgson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Litter,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Blossom Toes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ponytail,
Wings,
Make Up,
Aswad,
Tom Boy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jerry's Kids,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Cheater Slicks,
Cameo,
Wolf Eyes,
New Order,
Pagans,
Todd Terry,
The Stooges,
Bush Tetras,
Ultravox,
Interpol,
Albert Ayler,
Harpers Bizarre,
Procol Harum,
The Count Five,
Fear,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fluxion,
Gichy Dan,
Cecil Taylor,
Blancmange,
Lalann,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.