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 Luxembourg and from Bremen.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Happenings to the electroclash 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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
ABBA,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Yellowson,
Black Sheep,
Deadbeat,
Pantytec,
The Raincoats,
One Last Wish,
Robert Görl,
Kerri Chandler,
Blake Baxter,
Jerry's Kids,
Siglo XX,
Ornette Coleman,
R.M.O.,
Archie Shepp,
The Index,
Danielle Patucci,
Maurizio,
Robert Wyatt,
The Five Americans,
Frankie Knuckles,
Joey Negro,
Aaron Thompson,
Desert Stars,
Erykah Badu,
Model 500,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Spandau Ballet,
Alton Ellis,
Throbbing Gristle,
MDC,
Johnny Clarke,
Slick Rick,
Donny Hathaway,
Judy Mowatt,
Lyres,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The United States of America,
Warsaw,
Depeche Mode,
Deepchord,
Soul Sonic Force,
Roxy Music,
Skriet,
The Durutti Column,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ten City,
Crooked Eye,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ice-T,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Mojo Men,
Marc Almond,
Tommy Roe,
The Moleskins,
Sight & Sound,
Animal Collective,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.