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 Kenya and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 synthesizer 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the disco 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 The Cramps. All the underground hits.
All the Fania All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wings 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 spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Move,
Gil Scott Heron,
Dave Gahan,
Banda Bassotti,
Moss Icon,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Wolf Eyes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Scott Walker,
Derrick Morgan,
Archie Shepp,
Ronnie Foster,
Derrick May,
The Monochrome Set,
Subhumans,
Accadde A,
Trumans Water,
Ornette Coleman,
Thompson Twins,
The Durutti Column,
Arthur Verocai,
Brand Nubian,
Laurel Aitken,
EPMD,
Leonard Cohen,
Ultimate Spinach,
Susan Cadogan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fela Kuti,
Man Parrish,
Barry Ungar,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Stooges,
Babytalk,
The Gap Band,
Index,
Bobby Womack,
Ken Boothe,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jerry's Kids,
Gichy Dan,
ABC,
Camberwell Now,
Radio Birdman,
Underground Resistance,
Pantytec,
Gerry Rafferty,
Reuben Wilson,
Yusef Lateef,
Funky Four + One,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Smiths,
Skaos,
Reagan Youth,
Carl Craig,
Chris & Cosey,
Joyce Sims,
The Modern Lovers,
Lakeside,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Model 500,
Prince Buster,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.