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 Mali and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the güiro 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 Erasure to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Lee Hazlewood,
Outsiders,
Morten Harket,
Bobby Sherman,
Bobby Byrd,
Delta 5,
Man Parrish,
Jimmy McGriff,
Wasted Youth,
The Cramps,
Neu!,
Marmalade,
The Vogues,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lightning Bolt,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Barry Ungar,
Deadbeat,
Rakim,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Wolf Eyes,
Oblivians,
Radiohead,
The Moody Blues,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pussy Galore,
Angry Samoans,
Q and Not U,
Cameo,
The Gories,
the Swans,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gong,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Half Japanese,
Loose Ends,
The Sound,
Iggy Pop,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
These Immortal Souls,
Ultra Naté,
Electric Prunes,
Goldenarms,
Urselle,
Simply Red,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pagans,
One Last Wish,
Moebius,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marshall Jefferson,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Audionom,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drive Like Jehu,
Basic Channel,
Wings,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.