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 Mauritius and from Cairo.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bill Wells. All the underground hits.
All Glambeats Corp. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doobie Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sandy B,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Evens,
The Monochrome Set,
Jandek,
Davy DMX,
Roy Ayers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Red Krayola,
Susan Cadogan,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sound Behaviour,
The Gun Club,
Pulsallama,
Metal Thangz,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Isaac Hayes,
Mandrill,
Youth Brigade,
Eli Mardock,
The Offenders,
Eden Ahbez,
Chrome,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Juan Atkins,
Massinfluence,
Oneida,
Howard Jones,
L. Decosne,
Man Eating Sloth,
Cheater Slicks,
Joy Division,
Stereo Dub,
Sällskapet,
Joey Negro,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bronski Beat,
Erykah Badu,
a-ha,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Moebius,
The Move,
The Fuzztones,
Wally Richardson,
The Walker Brothers,
the Swans,
Gastr Del Sol,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Fania All-Stars,
Motorama,
The Names,
Rites of Spring,
The Young Rascals,
Faust,
Tom Boy,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.