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 Grenada and from Lille.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin 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 Sandy B to the funk 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 Kevin Saunderson. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James White and The Blacks,
The Angels of Light,
Rotary Connection,
Model 500,
Quantec,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Duran Duran,
Eurythmics,
The Moleskins,
Slave,
The Selecter,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Cure,
Rosa Yemen,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pierre Henry,
The Litter,
Donny Hathaway,
The Blackbyrds,
Traffic Nightmare,
JFA,
Black Moon,
Loose Ends,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare,
Minnie Riperton,
The Alarm Clocks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Thompson Twins,
Eric Copeland,
Gastr Del Sol,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bizarre Inc.,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dead Boys,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Golliwogs,
Bill Wells,
Morten Harket,
Skarface,
Popol Vuh,
The Shadows of Knight,
Radiohead,
Sex Pistols,
Nas,
Hashim,
Masters at Work,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Shoche,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mo-Dettes,
Ohio Players,
Crispy Ambulance,
Donald Byrd,
X-102,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
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.