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 Belarus and from Winnipeg.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 China Crisis to the electroclash 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 The Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All Sam Rivers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Count Five,
Kaleidoscope,
Scrapy,
Khruangbin,
Fatback Band,
June of 44,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Glambeats Corp.,
Monks,
Panda Bear,
Byron Stingily,
Todd Rundgren,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Au Pairs,
Lindisfarne,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Das Ding,
Jawbox,
Jeff Mills,
Tropical Tobacco,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Doors,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Clear Light,
Agent Orange,
Country Joe & The Fish,
ABC,
Aloha Tigers,
Amon Düül,
Laurel Aitken,
DNA,
Bill Wells,
Black Pus,
Unrelated Segments,
Nirvana,
Slick Rick,
Grey Daturas,
The Invisible,
Porter Ricks,
Skaos,
Jimmy McGriff,
Accadde A,
the Human League,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Thompson Twins,
Eurythmics,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cabaret Voltaire,
H. Thieme,
Terrestrial Tones,
Todd Terry,
John Coltrane,
Television Personalities,
Gang of Four,
A Certain Ratio,
The Detroit Cobras,
Colin Newman,
Kerrie Biddell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.