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 Sweden and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bizarre Inc. to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Hutcherson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minnie Riperton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
UT,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lalann,
The Shadows of Knight,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Joe Smooth,
Franke,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Index,
Crooked Eye,
Juan Atkins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Adolescents,
D'Angelo,
Alison Limerick,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Standells,
Bauhaus,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Eric Copeland,
The Angels of Light,
Joy Division,
Cybotron,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Flesh Eaters,
Talk Talk,
Warsaw,
Absolute Body Control,
Jeru the Damaja,
Erasure,
The Fire Engines,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Gun Club,
The Associates,
Eli Mardock,
Public Enemy,
Underground Resistance,
Wolf Eyes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Warren Ellis,
Ultimate Spinach,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gladiators,
Gregory Isaacs,
David Bowie,
Make Up,
Crime,
Shoche,
Ice-T,
Eric Dolphy,
Con Funk Shun,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Neon Judgement,
Wally Richardson,
Mad Mike,
Lee Hazlewood,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.