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 Solomon Islands and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the 808 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 Jandek to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
Mad Mike,
Rekid,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sam Rivers,
The New Christs,
Banda Bassotti,
These Immortal Souls,
F. McDonald,
The Selecter,
The Gories,
Reuben Wilson,
Alphaville,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Doobie Brothers,
Ossler,
One Last Wish,
Silicon Teens,
Sun City Girls,
Quando Quango,
Brothers Johnson,
Animal Collective,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Invisible,
Connie Case,
The Sonics,
Joensuu 1685,
Outsiders,
Joy Division,
Black Flag,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lungfish,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Graham Central Station,
Roy Ayers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Excepter,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Main Source,
Delon & Dalcan,
Harmonia,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
KRS-One,
Camberwell Now,
CMW,
ABC,
Marine Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Terry Callier,
The Human League,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Faust,
Supertramp,
Spoonie Gee,
Gang of Four,
Bang On A Can,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Cluster,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.