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 Vietnam and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Popol Vuh to the jazz 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Peter & Gordon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
T.S.O.L.,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Donny Hathaway,
X-Ray Spex,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
June Days,
8 Eyed Spy,
Henry Cow,
Boz Scaggs,
Jandek,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rufus Thomas,
Funky Four + One,
X-101,
Brass Construction,
John Foxx,
Lower 48,
Moss Icon,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Silicon Teens,
The Wake,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Loose Ends,
Jimmy McGriff,
Angry Samoans,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ice-T,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Moody Blues,
The Fugs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Mars,
The Birthday Party,
Crooked Eye,
CMW,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Scientists,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Arthur Verocai,
Ken Boothe,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nirvana,
Index,
Fela Kuti,
The Divine Comedy,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Absolute Body Control,
Josef K,
The Monochrome Set,
Ultimate Spinach,
Amon Düül II,
Sexual Harrassment,
Technova,
The Gories,
Yellowson,
Soft Machine,
Aswad,
Organ,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.