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 Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the grunge 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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Byron Stingily record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Khruangbin,
Massinfluence,
Dark Day,
Ken Boothe,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
This Heat,
Max Romeo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bill Wells,
Scan 7,
Donny Hathaway,
Flamin' Groovies,
Joy Division,
Freddie Wadling,
Average White Band,
Junior Murvin,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Fugazi,
Hoover,
The American Breed,
Josef K,
a-ha,
X-Ray Spex,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
One Last Wish,
Eric Dolphy,
Altered Images,
Ronan,
Danielle Patucci,
Gang of Four,
Pierre Henry,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Angels of Light,
Jesper Dahlback,
Electric Prunes,
Urselle,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bobby Womack,
Maleditus Sound,
Bizarre Inc.,
Saccharine Trust,
The Tremeloes,
Alphaville,
Shoche,
Tomorrow,
Barclay James Harvest,
Althea and Donna,
Anakelly,
Tears for Fears,
Pantaleimon,
Royal Trux,
Lalann,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Standells,
Popol Vuh,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.