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 Belgium and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 Bremen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 Youth Brigade to the rap 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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brothers Johnson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Joyce Sims,
One Last Wish,
Laurel Aitken,
Eurythmics,
Scrapy,
Technova,
Dennis Brown,
Amon Düül II,
Bronski Beat,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Zeros,
Sällskapet,
CMW,
Index,
Eric Dolphy,
Kayak,
Average White Band,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cymande,
Bang On A Can,
Curtis Mayfield,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Alphaville,
Matthew Bourne,
The Real Kids,
Metal Thangz,
The Count Five,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kerri Chandler,
John Coltrane,
10cc,
Glenn Branca,
Bobby Sherman,
June Days,
Funky Four + One,
Crash Course in Science,
The Blues Magoos,
The Moleskins,
Black Flag,
Skriet,
Junior Murvin,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Electric Prunes,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Blackbyrds,
Ossler,
The Neon Judgement,
kango's stein massive,
The Velvet Underground,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Toni Rubio,
Chrome,
Make Up,
The Vogues,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade.
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.