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 Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 rhodes 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 June of 44 to the jazz 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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Michelle Simonal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fluxion,
Sarah Menescal,
Camouflage,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Electric Prunes,
Bobby Womack,
Camberwell Now,
Livin' Joy,
Procol Harum,
Soft Cell,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ornette Coleman,
Charles Mingus,
Marmalade,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sam Rivers,
AZ,
The Monochrome Set,
Aaron Thompson,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Blake Baxter,
Black Bananas,
Moby Grape,
Matthew Bourne,
The Tremeloes,
Public Enemy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Monks,
New Age Steppers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Johnny Osbourne,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Stetsasonic,
Altered Images,
Skaos,
Theoretical Girls,
The Smiths,
DJ Style,
Davy DMX,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Barry Ungar,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gastr Del Sol,
Duran Duran,
Pylon,
Ponytail,
Joensuu 1685,
Desert Stars,
Fela Kuti,
JFA,
China Crisis,
The Seeds,
Sun City Girls,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Television,
Kenny Larkin,
Bobby Sherman,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.