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 Algeria and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 theremin 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 Robert Hood to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Eric Copeland,
Oblivians,
Pulsallama,
Kayak,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Suburban Knight,
OOIOO,
Blossom Toes,
The Vogues,
Grey Daturas,
Joe Smooth,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ice-T,
Can,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
the Human League,
Kerri Chandler,
Sonic Youth,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pierre Henry,
Nico,
Derrick Morgan,
Half Japanese,
Bob Dylan,
Nas,
Stereo Dub,
Arcadia,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pantytec,
Supertramp,
Al Stewart,
Y Pants,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Symarip,
Donald Byrd,
Blancmange,
Rod Modell,
Duran Duran,
Theoretical Girls,
Marmalade,
Desert Stars,
Steve Hackett,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Japan,
The Shadows of Knight,
Tomorrow,
The Gap Band,
One Last Wish,
Qualms,
Fugazi,
The Raincoats,
Young Marble Giants,
Sun Ra,
The Victims,
Massinfluence,
The Pretty Things,
Section 25,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.