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 Bahrain and from Salvador.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the organ 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 Michelle Simonal to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
Sister Nancy,
Hashim,
The Mojo Men,
Adolescents,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jimmy McGriff,
Deakin,
Dead Boys,
The J.B.'s,
Roxy Music,
Brick,
The Sonics,
Howard Jones,
Bootsy Collins,
Technova,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Nico,
Scan 7,
The Cowsills,
Suburban Knight,
Public Image Ltd.,
Yellowson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Avey Tare,
Average White Band,
Guru Guru,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sight & Sound,
Basic Channel,
Lightning Bolt,
Matthew Halsall,
Danielle Patucci,
The Divine Comedy,
Spoonie Gee,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marcia Griffiths,
Matthew Bourne,
Shuggie Otis,
Dawn Penn,
Model 500,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Deadbeat,
The Smiths,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fear,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Tremeloes,
The Count Five,
Charles Mingus,
Carl Craig,
Agitation Free,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Fuzztones,
The Grass Roots,
The Gladiators,
T.S.O.L.,
The Young Rascals,
Mo-Dettes,
U.S. Maple,
Freddie Wadling,
Japan,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.