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 Djibouti and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Motorama to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Erasure,
Soul II Soul,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Blancmange,
Ultra Naté,
Goldenarms,
Nas,
Circle Jerks,
Johnny Clarke,
Flash Fearless,
Delta 5,
Dual Sessions,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rotary Connection,
The Red Krayola,
Alice Coltrane,
Spoonie Gee,
Essential Logic,
Crime,
The Golliwogs,
Wally Richardson,
Jacques Brel,
Television Personalities,
The Litter,
Barrington Levy,
Gerry Rafferty,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Black Dice,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Deadbeat,
James White and The Blacks,
Tim Buckley,
LL Cool J,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pole,
AZ,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roger Hodgson,
The Sound,
JFA,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Eric Dolphy,
Mandrill,
Scientists,
Johnny Osbourne,
Joyce Sims,
Porter Ricks,
The Leaves,
Gabor Szabo,
Das Ding,
Nick Fraelich,
In Retrospect,
The Dave Clark Five,
Big Daddy Kane,
Oblivians,
Todd Rundgren,
Grauzone,
The Divine Comedy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pharoah Sanders,
Desert Stars,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.