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 Guyana and from Bologna.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Simply Red to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley 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 chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bronski Beat,
Can,
The Dave Clark Five,
Grauzone,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Don Cherry,
Andrew Hill,
The Litter,
Todd Terry,
Ten City,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Los Fastidios,
Soft Machine,
Lakeside,
Robert Hood,
Boz Scaggs,
Banda Bassotti,
Simply Red,
U.S. Maple,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sound Behaviour,
Thee Headcoats,
Boredoms,
Brick,
Sparks,
Nico,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bad Manners,
Fugazi,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Gladiators,
Marvin Gaye,
Pole,
Index,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Cybotron,
Bobby Sherman,
Gong,
Ice-T,
the Slits,
The Monks,
Donald Byrd,
Scion,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bobby Byrd,
Kerrie Biddell,
Chris & Cosey,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Peter & Gordon,
The Music Machine,
Eddi Front,
Crash Course in Science,
The Beau Brummels,
Monolake,
Scan 7,
In Retrospect,
Scratch Acid,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lower 48,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Niagra,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.