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 South Sudan and from Copenhagen.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kevin Saunderson to the jazz 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
A Certain Ratio,
Mad Mike,
the Swans,
Eric Copeland,
Fat Boys,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Residents,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bizarre Inc.,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Seeds,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Smog,
Peter & Gordon,
Youth Brigade,
Johnny Osbourne,
Brothers Johnson,
Spandau Ballet,
June Days,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ossler,
Crime,
Slick Rick,
Drexciya,
Blancmange,
Reagan Youth,
Scratch Acid,
Stetsasonic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
John Foxx,
Boz Scaggs,
Jawbox,
Echospace,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
H. Thieme,
Ultra Naté,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pet Shop Boys,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Television,
Hashim,
Adolescents,
The Slackers,
Aloha Tigers,
Scan 7,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Golliwogs,
Sandy B,
Alison Limerick,
Slave,
The Fuzztones,
Negative Approach,
Procol Harum,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ludus,
Faraquet,
Khruangbin,
Steve Hackett,
Pagans,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.