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 Rwanda and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bremen.
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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Grandmaster Flash 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 John Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Mo-Dettes,
Peter & Gordon,
Tears for Fears,
Kayak,
Basic Channel,
The Mojo Men,
Wally Richardson,
K-Klass,
UT,
Ten City,
Stereo Dub,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sixth Finger,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Glambeats Corp.,
Symarip,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Neil Young,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Goldenarms,
Harmonia,
The Walker Brothers,
10cc,
Subhumans,
Matthew Halsall,
Erasure,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sound Behaviour,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Erykah Badu,
Maleditus Sound,
Fluxion,
Das Ding,
Public Enemy,
Colin Newman,
Agent Orange,
Echospace,
Pussy Galore,
Soulsonic Force,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Mary Jane Girls,
the Germs,
Faraquet,
Arab on Radar,
Pulsallama,
Leonard Cohen,
Sight & Sound,
T.S.O.L.,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ludus,
The Zeros,
Smog,
Adolescents,
Roxette,
Cluster,
Yellowson,
Grauzone,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ultra Naté,
Little Man,
Sexual Harrassment,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.