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 Ukraine and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Rekid to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Popol Vuh record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
Buzzcocks,
Theoretical Girls,
AZ,
D'Angelo,
Bang On A Can,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kurtis Blow,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jerry's Kids,
Susan Cadogan,
The Monochrome Set,
Excepter,
Eden Ahbez,
Von Mondo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Hot Snakes,
Crispy Ambulance,
Shoche,
Nirvana,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Monolake,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lee Hazlewood,
Chris & Cosey,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Make Up,
The Cowsills,
Youth Brigade,
Subhumans,
Blancmange,
DJ Style,
Electric Prunes,
Dennis Brown,
Delon & Dalcan,
Isaac Hayes,
Flamin' Groovies,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Vladislav Delay,
10cc,
Lindisfarne,
Godley & Creme,
Magazine,
KRS-One,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Little Man,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Dead C,
The Wake,
The American Breed,
Brand Nubian,
Ludus,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gladiators,
Dead Boys,
Matthew Halsall,
Bobby Sherman,
Hoover,
Morten Harket,
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.