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 Mozambique and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx to the electroclash 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All Simply Red tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James White and The Blacks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
kango's stein massive,
Flash Fearless,
Crime,
The Mojo Men,
Rosa Yemen,
Scientists,
Lyres,
Los Fastidios,
Talk Talk,
Gang of Four,
Eurythmics,
The Blackbyrds,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Adolescents,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Duran Duran,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Monks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Essential Logic,
Royal Trux,
Man Parrish,
Peter and Kerry,
Loose Ends,
Goldenarms,
Echospace,
Deepchord,
Crispy Ambulance,
Mars,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Joe Finger,
Guru Guru,
Oblivians,
Robert Wyatt,
the Fania All-Stars,
Brick,
Joyce Sims,
Hardrive,
Panda Bear,
June of 44,
The Divine Comedy,
Juan Atkins,
The Saints,
The Slackers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fluxion,
Q65,
Al Stewart,
KRS-One,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sunsets and Hearts,
X-Ray Spex,
Skarface,
The Cure,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Flesh Eaters,
Moebius,
These Immortal Souls,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.