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 Panama and from Portland.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Flash Fearless,
Josef K,
Negative Approach,
Soulsonic Force,
Mark Hollis,
Johnny Osbourne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Velvet Underground,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sandy B,
The Vogues,
The Skatalites,
Funky Four + One,
One Last Wish,
Suburban Knight,
the Fania All-Stars,
Young Marble Giants,
The Busters,
Curtis Mayfield,
Man Parrish,
Jerry's Kids,
Pantaleimon,
Wolf Eyes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Alison Limerick,
Section 25,
Can,
Lindisfarne,
Y Pants,
Camouflage,
The Tremeloes,
The Divine Comedy,
X-101,
Pagans,
Spandau Ballet,
Eric B and Rakim,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Delta 5,
The Martian,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Niagra,
Donald Byrd,
Big Daddy Kane,
Stetsasonic,
Qualms,
T.S.O.L.,
The Leaves,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Wake,
Neil Young,
Sight & Sound,
Iggy Pop,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bobby Womack,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Five Americans,
Matthew Halsall,
The Motions,
In Retrospect,
The Saints, The Saints, The Saints, The Saints.
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.