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 Kenya and from Paris.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the sitar 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All The Vogues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Peter and Kerry,
Todd Rundgren,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Bill Near,
Stetsasonic,
Ponytail,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Blackbyrds,
Josef K,
Ralphi Rosario,
Franke,
DJ Sneak,
The Techniques,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Evens,
The Blues Magoos,
Amon Düül II,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scan 7,
The New Christs,
Crooked Eye,
Vainqueur,
The Motions,
Peter & Gordon,
Harmonia,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Depeche Mode,
Agitation Free,
Skriet,
Easy Going,
Jeff Lynne,
The Gun Club,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Divine Comedy,
Yusef Lateef,
Graham Central Station,
Soulsonic Force,
Eric Copeland,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bob Dylan,
Marmalade,
The Dave Clark Five,
Slave,
Avey Tare,
Nico,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Fortunes,
Trumans Water,
Cameo,
Surgeon,
The Raincoats,
Joensuu 1685,
Pere Ubu,
Archie Shepp,
Fluxion,
Wally Richardson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.