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 Jordan and from Columbus.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Skaos to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Bang On A Can,
Fluxion,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Smoke,
Intrusion,
Gerry Rafferty,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sex Pistols,
Andrew Hill,
MC5,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Invisible,
La Düsseldorf,
Deakin,
Bobby Womack,
Dark Day,
John Holt,
F. McDonald,
Isaac Hayes,
Radiopuhelimet,
Essential Logic,
Spoonie Gee,
Livin' Joy,
Wally Richardson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Second Layer,
Aaron Thompson,
Guru Guru,
Ohio Players,
Rekid,
Vainqueur,
Robert Wyatt,
Make Up,
Pharoah Sanders,
kango's stein massive,
T.S.O.L.,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Barracudas,
Schoolly D,
Tropical Tobacco,
Swans,
Supertramp,
Banda Bassotti,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lakeside,
Pere Ubu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Icehouse,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Faraquet,
EPMD,
Can,
Moebius,
The Monochrome Set,
Amon Düül,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.