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 Austria and from Accra.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Mumbai.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Danielle Patucci to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terrestrial Tones,
Marcia Griffiths,
T.S.O.L.,
Man Eating Sloth,
B.T. Express,
Babytalk,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Eddi Front,
JFA,
The Saints,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Star Department,
Jeff Lynne,
Nation of Ulysses,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Smog,
The Mummies,
Zero Boys,
Bobby Sherman,
Minutemen,
DNA,
Donald Byrd,
Thee Headcoats,
The Neon Judgement,
Morten Harket,
Joe Smooth,
Leonard Cohen,
Hoover,
Bootsy Collins,
Danielle Patucci,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Fortunes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ultra Naté,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gabor Szabo,
The Standells,
The Trojans,
Aural Exciters,
June Days,
Basic Channel,
Nils Olav,
The Residents,
Moss Icon,
Glambeats Corp.,
Popol Vuh,
The J.B.'s,
Fat Boys,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Marine Girls,
La Düsseldorf,
Sugar Minott,
The Moody Blues,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Offenders,
Quadrant,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Crooked Eye,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.