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 Montenegro and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Agent Orange to the dance 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
Reuben Wilson,
Infiniti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scan 7,
The Trojans,
Pulsallama,
Con Funk Shun,
Scott Walker,
Buzzcocks,
Gastr Del Sol,
B.T. Express,
Leonard Cohen,
Roger Hodgson,
Gichy Dan,
Drexciya,
The Moleskins,
The Gun Club,
Bob Dylan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Slick Rick,
The Durutti Column,
Eurythmics,
the Slits,
Henry Cow,
World's Most,
Supertramp,
Delon & Dalcan,
Danielle Patucci,
Darondo,
Gregory Isaacs,
Massinfluence,
Public Image Ltd.,
Dawn Penn,
Kerri Chandler,
Make Up,
The Selecter,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Flash Fearless,
Outsiders,
Nation of Ulysses,
Moby Grape,
The Mojo Men,
a-ha,
The Kinks,
The Pretty Things,
MC5,
Toni Rubio,
This Heat,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bang On A Can,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Piero Umiliani,
Von Mondo,
Fad Gadget,
F. McDonald,
Bobby Womack,
The Gladiators,
Section 25,
David Axelrod,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.