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 Estonia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 mellotron 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 Das Ding to the funk 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 the Bar-Kays. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Visage,
La Düsseldorf,
Donald Byrd,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Star Department,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bootsy Collins,
Thompson Twins,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Oblivians,
Bob Dylan,
Slave,
Delta 5,
Make Up,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Andrew Hill,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Letta Mbulu,
Spoonie Gee,
Organ,
Massinfluence,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Isaac Hayes,
Magma,
Dark Day,
Curtis Mayfield,
Marmalade,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Clear Light,
Todd Terry,
Mars,
Absolute Body Control,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Boogie Down Productions,
Al Stewart,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Black Sheep,
New Age Steppers,
The Litter,
Accadde A,
Kenny Larkin,
The Knickerbockers,
One Last Wish,
Flash Fearless,
The Mojo Men,
Michelle Simonal,
Rod Modell,
Black Bananas,
Desert Stars,
Marine Girls,
Ken Boothe,
Pierre Henry,
The American Breed,
The Gap Band,
Urselle,
Skriet,
Faust, Faust, Faust, Faust.
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.