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 Angola and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Steve Hackett to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Marvin Gaye,
Monks,
Quadrant,
Bobby Byrd,
Echospace,
Ultra Naté,
Don Cherry,
Girls At Our Best!,
New Age Steppers,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Leaves,
Infiniti,
Lebanon Hanover,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Goldenarms,
Bob Dylan,
Morten Harket,
Q and Not U,
Isaac Hayes,
Mantronix,
A Flock of Seagulls,
La Düsseldorf,
Intrusion,
Aaron Thompson,
The New Christs,
the Normal,
Absolute Body Control,
Japan,
Eddi Front,
Metal Thangz,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bobby Womack,
Stiv Bators,
Sexual Harrassment,
Agitation Free,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
R.M.O.,
X-Ray Spex,
OOIOO,
Jacob Miller,
Terry Callier,
the Bar-Kays,
Ten City,
Wolf Eyes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Can,
Neil Young,
Letta Mbulu,
Sällskapet,
Q65,
Aswad,
The Cure,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Section 25,
Clear Light,
Fluxion,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marmalade,
Surgeon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Franke,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
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.