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 Honduras and from Edmonton.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 güiro 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 The Sisters of Mercy to the techno 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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Pus,
Piero Umiliani,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Outsiders,
The Five Americans,
Sight & Sound,
Ken Boothe,
Q and Not U,
Icehouse,
Symarip,
John Lydon,
Radiohead,
the Swans,
Tres Demented,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bill Near,
Suicide,
Amon Düül,
Robert Hood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Thee Headcoats,
Sixth Finger,
Pulsallama,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Nas,
Los Fastidios,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Excepter,
The Fall,
Frankie Knuckles,
Soul Sonic Force,
Surgeon,
X-Ray Spex,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Germs,
Qualms,
Scientists,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Traffic Nightmare,
Terry Callier,
Public Enemy,
The Blackbyrds,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Severed Heads,
Alton Ellis,
Crash Course in Science,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Darondo,
Slave,
LL Cool J,
A Certain Ratio,
Wire,
The Fire Engines,
Be Bop Deluxe,
kango's stein massive,
Kurtis Blow,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Joensuu 1685,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.