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 Bhutan and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Joy Division to the jazz 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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric B and Rakim,
Joyce Sims,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Robert Wyatt,
The Grass Roots,
Saccharine Trust,
Gang Green,
David Axelrod,
Intrusion,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Reuben Wilson,
The Red Krayola,
Sister Nancy,
Fear,
The Vogues,
Lalann,
The Monochrome Set,
Groovy Waters,
The Real Kids,
Sexual Harrassment,
Pole,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Fall,
Television,
Public Image Ltd.,
Motorama,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Walker Brothers,
Curtis Mayfield,
Hashim,
Loose Ends,
Michelle Simonal,
Essential Logic,
Roy Ayers,
Tropical Tobacco,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Tomorrow,
Rites of Spring,
Anakelly,
Gastr Del Sol,
Arthur Verocai,
Tom Boy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Offenders,
a-ha,
Technova,
Brick,
Archie Shepp,
Bizarre Inc.,
Brass Construction,
Ken Boothe,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sugar Minott,
New Order,
The Shadows of Knight,
Minny Pops,
The Selecter,
Deakin,
Wings,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.