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 Czech Republic and from Tokyo.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Arthur Verocai to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Barbara Tucker,
The Durutti Column,
Brand Nubian,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lightning Bolt,
Clear Light,
Hot Snakes,
Sonic Youth,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Stockholm Monsters,
Quadrant,
Masters at Work,
Swell Maps,
X-Ray Spex,
Sound Behaviour,
The Walker Brothers,
Girls At Our Best!,
John Lydon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fluxion,
Robert Görl,
Bill Near,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Slick Rick,
Eric Dolphy,
Rites of Spring,
Smog,
Jimmy McGriff,
Erykah Badu,
Ralphi Rosario,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Essential Logic,
Ronan,
Zapp,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Motions,
John Holt,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Skriet,
the Normal,
Von Mondo,
Sandy B,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Alton Ellis,
The New Christs,
Fad Gadget,
Country Teasers,
DJ Sneak,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kool Moe Dee,
Byron Stingily,
The Standells,
Mission of Burma,
These Immortal Souls,
Electric Prunes,
Hasil Adkins,
Roxette,
Gang Gang Dance,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.