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 Malta and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Dennis Brown to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Strawberry Alarm Clock. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Bar-Kays record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
Soft Machine,
Blossom Toes,
Donald Byrd,
Connie Case,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sixth Finger,
Albert Ayler,
Average White Band,
The Invisible,
Second Layer,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Swell Maps,
Essential Logic,
Scott Walker,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Anakelly,
The Saints,
Davy DMX,
Hasil Adkins,
Chris & Cosey,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
One Last Wish,
Bluetip,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Busters,
The Move,
The Evens,
Marcia Griffiths,
Fat Boys,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Blake Baxter,
Rotary Connection,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lyres,
Grandmaster Flash,
Piero Umiliani,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Tubeway Army,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rakim,
Grauzone,
Electric Prunes,
Altered Images,
Supertramp,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Brick,
UT,
Hardrive,
the Normal,
Danielle Patucci,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Moby Grape,
Peter and Kerry,
Bobby Womack,
Joensuu 1685,
Talk Talk,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.