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 Cameroon and from Cairo.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Moss Icon to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Bang On A Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Absolute Body Control,
The Raincoats,
The Pop Group,
Harry Pussy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Y Pants,
Lower 48,
Charles Mingus,
Popol Vuh,
Roger Hodgson,
Black Flag,
Amon Düül,
Ornette Coleman,
Infiniti,
X-Ray Spex,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lindisfarne,
Todd Rundgren,
Public Enemy,
Fear,
Flash Fearless,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Flipper,
Moss Icon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pet Shop Boys,
Kas Product,
ABC,
Connie Case,
MDC,
Iggy Pop,
The Remains,
Theoretical Girls,
Ultra Naté,
The Real Kids,
JFA,
Delta 5,
Half Japanese,
Khruangbin,
Nik Kershaw,
Japan,
Depeche Mode,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Agent Orange,
Funkadelic,
Wolf Eyes,
The Evens,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
T. Rex,
Lucky Dragons,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Glambeats Corp.,
Don Cherry,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Index,
B.T. Express,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eddi Front,
Prince Buster,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.