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 Iceland and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 guitar 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 Cameo to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Searchers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott Heron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ituana,
CMW,
Ronnie Foster,
Minny Pops,
John Holt,
Dorothy Ashby,
Don Cherry,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Offenders,
The Knickerbockers,
The Techniques,
Glambeats Corp.,
Brass Construction,
Zapp,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Michelle Simonal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sound Behaviour,
Tres Demented,
DNA,
The Fortunes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Angels of Light,
The Music Machine,
The Invisible,
Lyres,
Girls At Our Best!,
Stockholm Monsters,
Supertramp,
The Monochrome Set,
Masters at Work,
Q and Not U,
Hot Snakes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Boz Scaggs,
The Smiths,
Country Joe & The Fish,
MC5,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rhythm & Sound,
Au Pairs,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Robert Görl,
Iggy Pop,
Con Funk Shun,
Mr. Review,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bluetip,
The Remains,
Yellowson,
Thee Headcoats,
The Velvet Underground,
Funky Four + One,
Royal Trux,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
World's Most,
Los Fastidios,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.