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 Kazakhstan and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 808 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 ABC 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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fall,
R.M.O.,
Roxette,
Lightning Bolt,
the Sonics,
Erykah Badu,
Bad Manners,
Cheater Slicks,
The Happenings,
Lindisfarne,
Banda Bassotti,
Faraquet,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Avey Tare,
Chris Corsano,
Roger Hodgson,
Yaz,
Johnny Osbourne,
DNA,
Public Image Ltd.,
New Age Steppers,
Pole,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bronski Beat,
Yazoo,
Los Fastidios,
the Soft Cell,
Reagan Youth,
Brass Construction,
Swell Maps,
Cal Tjader,
Alton Ellis,
Minny Pops,
Darondo,
Mark Hollis,
Minutemen,
Scion,
The Litter,
CMW,
DJ Sneak,
Essential Logic,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Pop Group,
Idris Muhammad,
Roxy Music,
Stetsasonic,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Albert Ayler,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Leaves,
Oneida,
Little Man,
Urselle,
Juan Atkins,
Popol Vuh,
Symarip,
the Association,
Wally Richardson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
June Days, June Days, June Days, June Days.
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.