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 Antigua 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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Gil Scott Heron to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Yellowson,
Al Stewart,
Sun City Girls,
Moebius,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Fire Engines,
Mantronix,
The Monochrome Set,
Arthur Verocai,
Absolute Body Control,
The Zeros,
Simply Red,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sister Nancy,
One Last Wish,
Matthew Bourne,
The Detroit Cobras,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Anakelly,
Derrick May,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bronski Beat,
the Association,
David McCallum,
Duran Duran,
The Neon Judgement,
The Sonics,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Aaron Thompson,
Unwound,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
La Düsseldorf,
Ornette Coleman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Jeff Mills,
Altered Images,
Bob Dylan,
CMW,
Dual Sessions,
Barbara Tucker,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Grey Daturas,
Kerri Chandler,
The Fugs,
Siglo XX,
Stetsasonic,
Animal Collective,
Davy DMX,
Crooked Eye,
Joy Division,
Minutemen,
Fat Boys,
Crime,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Hasil Adkins,
June Days,
Guru Guru,
B.T. Express,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd.
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.