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 the UAE and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 808 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 Sight & Sound to the techno 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 Saccharine Trust. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole 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 güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Tommy Roe,
The Slackers,
Neil Young,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Siglo XX,
Flamin' Groovies,
Von Mondo,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
MC5,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Morten Harket,
Funkadelic,
Fear,
Little Man,
Black Flag,
The Gun Club,
Public Image Ltd.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gregory Isaacs,
Second Layer,
Gil Scott Heron,
Cluster,
Mr. Review,
Sun City Girls,
Avey Tare,
Cheater Slicks,
The Evens,
AZ,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lou Christie,
Livin' Joy,
Parry Music,
Carl Craig,
The Gories,
The Offenders,
Make Up,
Althea and Donna,
Shuggie Otis,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Music Machine,
The Black Dice,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Juan Atkins,
Monks,
Junior Murvin,
Jacob Miller,
Erasure,
The Modern Lovers,
Lindisfarne,
Michelle Simonal,
Lakeside,
Babytalk,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Donny Hathaway,
Nik Kershaw,
Ornette Coleman,
The Cowsills,
Visage,
Freddie Wadling,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.