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 Guinea and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 arpeggiator 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 Lee Hazlewood to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Beau Brummels. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
Joensuu 1685,
Ossler,
Rotary Connection,
Ken Boothe,
Jacques Brel,
Simply Red,
Japan,
Eric Copeland,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
the Bar-Kays,
The Blues Magoos,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ultravox,
Prince Buster,
Byron Stingily,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Nas,
Junior Murvin,
Heaven 17,
Scion,
ABBA,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Terrestrial Tones,
Animal Collective,
Bobby Byrd,
Thompson Twins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Pretty Things,
Graham Central Station,
Echospace,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Urselle,
Shuggie Otis,
Fela Kuti,
Michelle Simonal,
Stiv Bators,
Gil Scott Heron,
Unwound,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Barry Ungar,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Black Bananas,
Cluster,
The Misunderstood,
Little Man,
Johnny Osbourne,
Hardrive,
E-Dancer,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eli Mardock,
Sonny Sharrock,
Arthur Verocai,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Red Krayola,
Bob Dylan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
David Bowie,
Gichy Dan,
Deakin, Deakin, Deakin, Deakin.
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.