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 Papua New Guinea and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 organ 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 Carl Craig to the dance 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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Bang On A Can,
Lungfish,
B.T. Express,
Gerry Rafferty,
Absolute Body Control,
Crime,
Black Flag,
Pharoah Sanders,
Robert Hood,
The Grass Roots,
Quando Quango,
Cheater Slicks,
Max Romeo,
Derrick Morgan,
Moebius,
New Order,
Deakin,
Animal Collective,
The Knickerbockers,
Groovy Waters,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Vogues,
Rakim,
a-ha,
Camouflage,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Brass Construction,
Vainqueur,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Depeche Mode,
Rufus Thomas,
The Moody Blues,
Nirvana,
Alison Limerick,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Sound,
Ludus,
The Barracudas,
Anakelly,
Graham Central Station,
Anthony Braxton,
Average White Band,
Joyce Sims,
Al Stewart,
Jacob Miller,
Masters at Work,
Stetsasonic,
Television Personalities,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Fela Kuti,
Young Marble Giants,
Man Parrish,
The Leaves,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Doobie Brothers,
Y Pants,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
T.S.O.L.,
The Blues Magoos,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Faust,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.