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 Spain and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Second Layer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Shuggie Otis,
Grauzone,
Hashim,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Derrick Morgan,
Neil Young,
Mantronix,
Rites of Spring,
Godley & Creme,
Minnie Riperton,
Fad Gadget,
Bauhaus,
Aloha Tigers,
Barry Ungar,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Doobie Brothers,
New York Dolls,
Jeru the Damaja,
New Age Steppers,
Todd Terry,
The Detroit Cobras,
Newcleus,
The Skatalites,
Jeff Lynne,
The Wake,
Ultimate Spinach,
Public Enemy,
Roger Hodgson,
Average White Band,
Cymande,
Sun City Girls,
Slave,
Echospace,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Chris & Cosey,
Royal Trux,
Freddie Wadling,
Skriet,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Danielle Patucci,
Flash Fearless,
Gang Starr,
Kool Moe Dee,
Quantec,
Eli Mardock,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bronski Beat,
U.S. Maple,
Faust,
Gabor Szabo,
Porter Ricks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sparks,
Swell Maps,
Crime,
Ponytail,
The American Breed,
Second Layer,
Rufus Thomas,
Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going.
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.