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 Guinea and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 guitar 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 Joe Smooth to the dance 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 Laurel Aitken. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Wake 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Leaves record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Kaleidoscope,
Faust,
Lyres,
The Human League,
Rapeman,
Eve St. Jones,
Vladislav Delay,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Zeros,
Parry Music,
Boogie Down Productions,
Excepter,
Erykah Badu,
Motorama,
The Index,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Morten Harket,
Malaria!,
Minnie Riperton,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Girls At Our Best!,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Aural Exciters,
Mission of Burma,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lightning Bolt,
Television,
Soft Machine,
Pulsallama,
Joe Smooth,
Ossler,
Mandrill,
The Count Five,
Black Bananas,
The Offenders,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Minutemen,
The Knickerbockers,
Stockholm Monsters,
Flipper,
The Tremeloes,
X-102,
The Kinks,
Dual Sessions,
James White and The Blacks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ken Boothe,
The Grass Roots,
Barrington Levy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Velvet Underground,
Kenny Larkin,
Sugar Minott,
Reagan Youth,
Negative Approach,
Au Pairs,
Siglo XX,
Franke,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Blackbyrds,
Visage,
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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.