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 Costa Rica and from Lyon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sällskapet to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Lee Hazlewood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fuzztones,
Wasted Youth,
Unrelated Segments,
Jimmy McGriff,
DJ Style,
Delta 5,
Boz Scaggs,
Matthew Halsall,
Drive Like Jehu,
Grey Daturas,
La Düsseldorf,
Eric Copeland,
The Associates,
Second Layer,
Crime,
Prince Buster,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sun City Girls,
the Sonics,
Janne Schatter,
Bang On A Can,
Franke,
Metal Thangz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mars,
Little Man,
Stetsasonic,
Boogie Down Productions,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
June of 44,
Subhumans,
The Raincoats,
The Smoke,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kas Product,
Smog,
Deadbeat,
Matthew Bourne,
The Flesh Eaters,
Camberwell Now,
Unwound,
Marvin Gaye,
David Bowie,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Fall,
Pagans,
Slick Rick,
The Martian,
Yaz,
Gong,
Faraquet,
Maleditus Sound,
Adolescents,
Eve St. Jones,
Parry Music,
Mark Hollis,
Q65,
Black Pus,
Main Source,
Joe Smooth,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Trojans,
Barrington Levy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.