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 Lithuania and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 harpsichord 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Richard Hell and the Voidoids 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobbi Humphrey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Todd Terry,
David Bowie,
The Offenders,
Talk Talk,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Monochrome Set,
Livin' Joy,
The Techniques,
The United States of America,
Joyce Sims,
Black Moon,
Mars,
Lower 48,
Massinfluence,
Kerri Chandler,
La Düsseldorf,
Popol Vuh,
Curtis Mayfield,
Danielle Patucci,
Sonic Youth,
Buzzcocks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
This Heat,
Panda Bear,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Motions,
Interpol,
Arthur Verocai,
Suicide,
Scott Walker,
Tropical Tobacco,
Soulsonic Force,
Rotary Connection,
Youth Brigade,
Toni Rubio,
China Crisis,
Model 500,
These Immortal Souls,
Mo-Dettes,
Make Up,
Yusef Lateef,
Mad Mike,
Hoover,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gang Gang Dance,
DJ Sneak,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Wake,
Liliput,
Roy Ayers,
The Pop Group,
Isaac Hayes,
Guru Guru,
Lakeside,
Simply Red,
Scion,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.