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 Barbados and from Jakarta.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Flesh Eaters to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All the Fania All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. 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 rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
The Techniques,
Minutemen,
Sun City Girls,
Porter Ricks,
Qualms,
Todd Terry,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Wake,
Roxy Music,
Leonard Cohen,
Bobby Byrd,
Donald Byrd,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Index,
Matthew Bourne,
The Fuzztones,
Mark Hollis,
kango's stein massive,
Niagra,
Nik Kershaw,
In Retrospect,
Chrome,
Janne Schatter,
Liliput,
Patti Smith,
Anakelly,
Quantec,
The Vogues,
Icehouse,
The Mummies,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Tubeway Army,
Popol Vuh,
These Immortal Souls,
Carl Craig,
Roy Ayers,
Dual Sessions,
Angry Samoans,
Max Romeo,
Roxette,
Youth Brigade,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Iggy Pop,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Davy DMX,
Agitation Free,
Eric B and Rakim,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pylon,
Massinfluence,
Drexciya,
Monks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Television,
The Knickerbockers,
K-Klass,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.