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 Guinea and from Edmonton.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Glambeats Corp. 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 The Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Symarip,
La Düsseldorf,
X-101,
Brothers Johnson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Fad Gadget,
Black Moon,
Jesper Dahlback,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bob Dylan,
Blancmange,
The Pop Group,
Delon & Dalcan,
Blossom Toes,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
the Normal,
Can,
Chris Corsano,
DNA,
The Standells,
Idris Muhammad,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ludus,
Black Pus,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Deepchord,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mandrill,
The Victims,
Leonard Cohen,
The Saints,
Sparks,
Cybotron,
Swell Maps,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Buckinghams,
Godley & Creme,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Freddie Wadling,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lalann,
48th St. Collective,
Donny Hathaway,
Procol Harum,
Colin Newman,
David Axelrod,
Kas Product,
Marine Girls,
The J.B.'s,
Massinfluence,
The Gun Club,
Mantronix,
Dennis Brown,
Ken Boothe,
Yazoo,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pantaleimon,
The Five Americans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.