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 Ukraine and from Columbus.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Cecil Taylor to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerrie Biddell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deadbeat,
Pole,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
the Normal,
Derrick May,
Nik Kershaw,
Hashim,
Jawbox,
Basic Channel,
Junior Murvin,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Cramps,
Carl Craig,
The Trojans,
Drive Like Jehu,
Roxy Music,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Move,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Amazonics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scan 7,
Boz Scaggs,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Radiohead,
Chris & Cosey,
Fad Gadget,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lakeside,
Y Pants,
Soul II Soul,
Aswad,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vladislav Delay,
Yaz,
The Misunderstood,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lyres,
Terry Callier,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Cheater Slicks,
Little Man,
Janne Schatter,
Graham Central Station,
Crooked Eye,
The Busters,
Tres Demented,
The Dead C,
Marvin Gaye,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The United States of America,
Don Cherry,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gong,
Icehouse,
The Offenders,
Robert Wyatt,
Ossler,
The Selecter,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.