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 Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 Beijing and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 linndrum 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 Pierre Henry to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The J.B.'s record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
The Pretty Things,
Danielle Patucci,
The Five Americans,
Kas Product,
Lakeside,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Peter & Gordon,
The Beau Brummels,
the Soft Cell,
Country Teasers,
EPMD,
The Slits,
Los Fastidios,
Sugar Minott,
Charles Mingus,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bill Near,
This Heat,
Sonic Youth,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Monochrome Set,
Porter Ricks,
Marine Girls,
Frankie Knuckles,
Moss Icon,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Shoche,
Von Mondo,
Faraquet,
Icehouse,
U.S. Maple,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Soulsonic Force,
Patti Smith,
Minnie Riperton,
Swell Maps,
Vainqueur,
Moebius,
Eric B and Rakim,
KRS-One,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Black Flag,
Public Image Ltd.,
Alphaville,
Pere Ubu,
The Saints,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Groovy Waters,
Inner City,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
L. Decosne,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Morten Harket,
Half Japanese,
Cecil Taylor,
Make Up,
Rotary Connection,
Matthew Halsall,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.