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 Ghana and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 mellotron 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 Bobby Womack to the disco 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
Tears for Fears,
Nils Olav,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pierre Henry,
Eric B and Rakim,
Andrew Hill,
Brand Nubian,
Sound Behaviour,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Star Department,
the Human League,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Terry Callier,
Joe Smooth,
UT,
Henry Cow,
Colin Newman,
Dead Boys,
Isaac Hayes,
The Sonics,
Sällskapet,
Scrapy,
Donny Hathaway,
Gong,
The Monochrome Set,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Gap Band,
The Stooges,
Pagans,
June Days,
OOIOO,
The Moody Blues,
The Offenders,
Ludus,
Maleditus Sound,
DJ Sneak,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Goldenarms,
Fluxion,
K-Klass,
Al Stewart,
Chrome,
One Last Wish,
Wolf Eyes,
Radio Birdman,
Soft Machine,
The Motions,
Porter Ricks,
Jimmy McGriff,
KRS-One,
Gang Green,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jesper Dahlback,
Nik Kershaw,
the Germs,
The Blackbyrds,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Techniques,
Jerry's Kids,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.