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 Tajikistan and from Mumbai.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 MDC to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Cheater Slicks. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Cecil Taylor,
Guru Guru,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ultimate Spinach,
Derrick May,
X-Ray Spex,
The Fire Engines,
Soulsonic Force,
Dennis Brown,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Minnie Riperton,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Letta Mbulu,
Oblivians,
Camouflage,
World's Most,
H. Thieme,
Jeff Mills,
John Holt,
Essential Logic,
Suburban Knight,
Y Pants,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Faust,
Crispian St. Peters,
JFA,
Underground Resistance,
Maleditus Sound,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lakeside,
Soul Sonic Force,
Leonard Cohen,
Nik Kershaw,
Aswad,
The Raincoats,
The Gladiators,
Freddie Wadling,
Dawn Penn,
The Smiths,
Sex Pistols,
The Dirtbombs,
The Selecter,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Normal,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Little Man,
Liliput,
Morten Harket,
Ronnie Foster,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Graham Central Station,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Section 25,
the Sonics,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Cheater Slicks,
Jacob Miller,
Boogie Down Productions,
June of 44,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Anakelly,
Alice Coltrane,
Con Funk Shun,
Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum.
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.