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 Togo and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tokyo.
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 arpeggiator 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 K-Klass to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Prince Buster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kenny Larkin,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Monochrome Set,
Maurizio,
Siglo XX,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Kinks,
Erykah Badu,
E-Dancer,
Kerri Chandler,
David McCallum,
Country Teasers,
Porter Ricks,
Sex Pistols,
One Last Wish,
UT,
Shuggie Otis,
Index,
X-102,
Minny Pops,
Swell Maps,
Skaos,
the Normal,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Human League,
Schoolly D,
Moby Grape,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jeff Lynne,
Funky Four + One,
Nils Olav,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Quando Quango,
Gichy Dan,
Negative Approach,
Scion,
Agitation Free,
Bootsy Collins,
Steve Hackett,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Young Marble Giants,
Harry Pussy,
Jandek,
Quantec,
The J.B.'s,
James White and The Blacks,
Fatback Band,
Marine Girls,
Minor Threat,
The United States of America,
DJ Sneak,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ponytail,
Arthur Verocai,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kerrie Biddell,
Avey Tare,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.