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 Ethiopia and from Mumbai.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Move to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drexciya 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Inner City,
Soul II Soul,
Soul Sonic Force,
Swans,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Barrington Levy,
The Associates,
Todd Rundgren,
Arthur Verocai,
U.S. Maple,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Graham Central Station,
The Monochrome Set,
Lyres,
Lower 48,
Eve St. Jones,
Terrestrial Tones,
Crime,
Toni Rubio,
The Seeds,
The Music Machine,
CMW,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
MC5,
New Age Steppers,
Rakim,
Tears for Fears,
The Buckinghams,
The Modern Lovers,
James White and The Blacks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
KRS-One,
Ossler,
Wire,
Babytalk,
Ultra Naté,
Rites of Spring,
The Neon Judgement,
Oblivians,
Clear Light,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Q65,
Groovy Waters,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Camouflage,
the Human League,
Ralphi Rosario,
Brass Construction,
Pagans,
The Vogues,
Faraquet,
Ponytail,
Altered Images,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ten City,
Kaleidoscope,
The Shadows of Knight,
Roger Hodgson,
Rosa Yemen,
Sex Pistols,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.