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 Russia and from Johannesburg.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 mellotron 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 Brass Construction to the techno 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 The Litter. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
Quadrant,
Fugazi,
D'Angelo,
The Young Rascals,
ABC,
Albert Ayler,
Lou Christie,
Rites of Spring,
Sparks,
Fat Boys,
U.S. Maple,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Cowsills,
Harmonia,
Soulsonic Force,
AZ,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gap Band,
Youth Brigade,
K-Klass,
Andrew Hill,
Sight & Sound,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Tomorrow,
Cameo,
Johnny Clarke,
Pantaleimon,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lower 48,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Stereo Dub,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Marvin Gaye,
Kayak,
Jawbox,
Kaleidoscope,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rakim,
Alison Limerick,
The Seeds,
Idris Muhammad,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Oblivians,
Matthew Halsall,
The Birthday Party,
Junior Murvin,
In Retrospect,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Raincoats,
Gastr Del Sol,
Boredoms,
Soft Machine,
Saccharine Trust,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks.
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.