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 Lebanon and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 oboe 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 Masters at Work to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ornette Coleman. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Young Marble Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Derrick Morgan,
The Birthday Party,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Scan 7,
Tropical Tobacco,
Panda Bear,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sarah Menescal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Depeche Mode,
The Last Poets,
The Buckinghams,
Cluster,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Harmonia,
Marc Almond,
The Move,
Banda Bassotti,
The Mojo Men,
Barbara Tucker,
the Fania All-Stars,
Soul II Soul,
New York Dolls,
Pierre Henry,
The Cramps,
The Blackbyrds,
Sandy B,
Moebius,
T.S.O.L.,
Cal Tjader,
The Motions,
Ossler,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Star Department,
X-102,
Severed Heads,
Sound Behaviour,
EPMD,
Sex Pistols,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Associates,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Desert Stars,
Black Bananas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Quadrant,
Stiv Bators,
The Vogues,
U.S. Maple,
The Gun Club,
Pole,
Section 25,
Bootsy Collins,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Invisible,
Young Marble Giants,
The Saints,
The Searchers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Circle Jerks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.