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 Mali and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 arpeggiator 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 The Leaves to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Stetsasonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ornette Coleman,
The Misunderstood,
Altered Images,
ABBA,
The Angels of Light,
Tomorrow,
Monks,
Prince Buster,
The Kinks,
Joe Smooth,
Sound Behaviour,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Pretty Things,
The Saints,
Stereo Dub,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Icehouse,
Arcadia,
Mars,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nico,
Amon Düül II,
Aswad,
Unwound,
Black Flag,
The Monks,
Duran Duran,
Crash Course in Science,
Khruangbin,
The Fuzztones,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
John Holt,
Bill Wells,
Crime,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Boogie Down Productions,
Suburban Knight,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cymande,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Thompson Twins,
Marine Girls,
Audionom,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Soulsonic Force,
Jeff Lynne,
Tres Demented,
Pantaleimon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Delta 5,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
A Certain Ratio,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lalo Schifrin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.