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 Uruguay 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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Selecter to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Beasts of Bourbon. All the underground hits.
All Man Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Teenage Jesus and the Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Barclay James Harvest,
In Retrospect,
Michelle Simonal,
Anthony Braxton,
Ultravox,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Velvet Underground,
The Gladiators,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ossler,
Fluxion,
Alton Ellis,
Sun City Girls,
The Dave Clark Five,
Saccharine Trust,
Soft Cell,
Bobby Sherman,
Lou Reed,
Average White Band,
Qualms,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Brass Construction,
Lee Hazlewood,
Tommy Roe,
Minny Pops,
Surgeon,
Little Man,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pierre Henry,
The Count Five,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Adolescents,
10cc,
One Last Wish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Procol Harum,
The Evens,
Minnie Riperton,
Khruangbin,
Yaz,
Youth Brigade,
Wolf Eyes,
Au Pairs,
John Coltrane,
Public Image Ltd.,
Susan Cadogan,
Blancmange,
UT,
Rekid,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Black Pus,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
This Heat,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fortunes,
Scientists,
Ultimate Spinach,
OOIOO,
Lower 48,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
LL Cool J,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.