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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Trojans to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
The Five Americans,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Knickerbockers,
Roxette,
Sight & Sound,
Mo-Dettes,
Jacques Brel,
Arcadia,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Y Pants,
Ken Boothe,
Frankie Knuckles,
Johnny Clarke,
The Velvet Underground,
the Human League,
the Sonics,
James Chance & The Contortions,
James White and The Blacks,
Aswad,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Newcleus,
Dennis Brown,
Average White Band,
Big Daddy Kane,
Crooked Eye,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Guru Guru,
Ultimate Spinach,
Chris & Cosey,
Sun Ra,
Lou Christie,
Excepter,
The Fire Engines,
Panda Bear,
Siglo XX,
Goldenarms,
Television Personalities,
The Durutti Column,
The Angels of Light,
Bush Tetras,
The Count Five,
Colin Newman,
Simply Red,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Theoretical Girls,
a-ha,
Jimmy McGriff,
Chrome,
Bizarre Inc.,
Brass Construction,
New Order,
Mantronix,
Nico,
Godley & Creme,
Hot Snakes,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gun Club,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.