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 Kuwait and from Glasgow.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Blackbyrds to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slave record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Negative Approach,
The Victims,
Bobby Womack,
T. Rex,
The Fuzztones,
Television Personalities,
Lalann,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Dead C,
Rotary Connection,
Dennis Brown,
Jacob Miller,
Intrusion,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Offenders,
Scientists,
The Buckinghams,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pantaleimon,
Icehouse,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sonic Youth,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fad Gadget,
Gong,
The Blackbyrds,
Godley & Creme,
Andrew Hill,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yaz,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Tommy Roe,
Girls At Our Best!,
Outsiders,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Big Daddy Kane,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Basic Channel,
The Seeds,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pharoah Sanders,
Zero Boys,
Sugar Minott,
Janne Schatter,
Little Man,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Tremeloes,
The Selecter,
Newcleus,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Erykah Badu,
Khruangbin,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Doors,
Barbara Tucker,
Skaos,
Lungfish,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.