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 Solomon Islands and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 güiro 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 KRS-One to the grime 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 Wolf Eyes. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fela Kuti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
KRS-One,
Traffic Nightmare,
Second Layer,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Buckinghams,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Peter and Kerry,
Alison Limerick,
DJ Sneak,
Bill Wells,
Joy Division,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
EPMD,
Youth Brigade,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Suicide,
Stiv Bators,
Excepter,
Sparks,
Sexual Harrassment,
Minny Pops,
UT,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Eden Ahbez,
Gong,
The Blues Magoos,
The Motions,
Black Moon,
Groovy Waters,
Crime,
Agent Orange,
The Beau Brummels,
Eddi Front,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Dead Boys,
Flash Fearless,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
June of 44,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wolf Eyes,
The Knickerbockers,
Television,
Ultravox,
Chrome,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Brick,
Ten City,
Soulsonic Force,
Marvin Gaye,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bobby Sherman,
Alphaville,
The Black Dice,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Technova,
Mantronix,
the Normal,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.