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 Egypt and from Johannesburg.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeru the Damaja,
The Knickerbockers,
Duran Duran,
Kerri Chandler,
ABC,
The Buckinghams,
Eric Dolphy,
L. Decosne,
Swell Maps,
Darondo,
Tears for Fears,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Derrick Morgan,
Roy Ayers,
Japan,
Gregory Isaacs,
ABBA,
Eden Ahbez,
Don Cherry,
JFA,
Underground Resistance,
The Sound,
The Cramps,
Stiv Bators,
Talk Talk,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Colin Newman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cecil Taylor,
Alison Limerick,
Eli Mardock,
Siglo XX,
Ice-T,
Marine Girls,
Yusef Lateef,
Godley & Creme,
June Days,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bauhaus,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Gap Band,
Cybotron,
Jacques Brel,
Fugazi,
Malaria!,
Anthony Braxton,
Nation of Ulysses,
Fela Kuti,
Sam Rivers,
Essential Logic,
U.S. Maple,
Mandrill,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Last Poets,
Babytalk,
Mars,
Juan Atkins,
Prince Buster,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Joyce Sims,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.