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 Ghana and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Iggy Pop to the grime 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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Albert Ayler 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 a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
Yazoo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Negative Approach,
Marine Girls,
Subhumans,
Amazonics,
The Flesh Eaters,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Offenders,
Altered Images,
Hoover,
Tim Buckley,
D'Angelo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Isaac Hayes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
kango's stein massive,
The Remains,
The Monochrome Set,
Don Cherry,
The New Christs,
Echospace,
Arcadia,
PIL,
Yusef Lateef,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Martian,
Gregory Isaacs,
Brass Construction,
The Fortunes,
K-Klass,
Tom Boy,
Audionom,
Roxette,
Quadrant,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Easy Going,
June of 44,
Section 25,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Q and Not U,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pere Ubu,
Amon Düül II,
The Litter,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bill Wells,
Quando Quango,
The Walker Brothers,
The Selecter,
Hardrive,
Harry Pussy,
Maurizio,
Soul Sonic Force,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Terry Callier,
Deepchord,
Connie Case,
Technova,
Funky Four + One,
Rekid,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.