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 Romania and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Lou Reed 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 New York Dolls to the grime 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Echospace,
Pylon,
The Offenders,
Nick Fraelich,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kayak,
The Pretty Things,
Vainqueur,
Lower 48,
Von Mondo,
Tres Demented,
Sixth Finger,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pussy Galore,
Reuben Wilson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Technova,
Black Bananas,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Saints,
These Immortal Souls,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Whodini,
Scan 7,
Rotary Connection,
John Lydon,
Sight & Sound,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ultimate Spinach,
U.S. Maple,
Hot Snakes,
Youth Brigade,
Robert Hood,
Bob Dylan,
Hashim,
Minutemen,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Dark Day,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Boogie Down Productions,
Tears for Fears,
The Knickerbockers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
DJ Sneak,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Donny Hathaway,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sexual Harrassment,
Wings,
Pantytec,
Deepchord,
Stetsasonic,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Urselle,
Oblivians,
The Sonics,
The Invisible,
Bush Tetras,
DJ Style,
Charles Mingus,
Cymande,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.