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 Serbia and from Hong Kong.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Whodini to the funk 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 Liaisons Dangereuses. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Selecter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radio Birdman,
Television,
Khruangbin,
Gregory Isaacs,
Minnie Riperton,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gories,
Sun Ra,
Patti Smith,
China Crisis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Piero Umiliani,
Popol Vuh,
Aural Exciters,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jesper Dahlback,
Donny Hathaway,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Grey Daturas,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Zeros,
Lightning Bolt,
Curtis Mayfield,
John Lydon,
Blancmange,
Fugazi,
Prince Buster,
The Evens,
The Knickerbockers,
Bob Dylan,
Bobby Byrd,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Essential Logic,
Agent Orange,
In Retrospect,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
the Human League,
New York Dolls,
Derrick May,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Franke,
Avey Tare,
Liliput,
The Techniques,
Traffic Nightmare,
Monks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Surgeon,
Quando Quango,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cal Tjader,
Von Mondo,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Saints,
Maurizio,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bill Wells,
Lalann,
Michelle Simonal,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.