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 Nauru and from Woodstock.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultravox,
the Fania All-Stars,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Qualms,
Man Eating Sloth,
Janne Schatter,
Bobby Womack,
The Gories,
Harry Pussy,
Radiopuhelimet,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Music Machine,
The Motions,
Hardrive,
The Black Dice,
The Remains,
Scientists,
Wally Richardson,
Animal Collective,
Freddie Wadling,
Jeru the Damaja,
Shoche,
Mantronix,
Kool Moe Dee,
Black Sheep,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Martian,
Deadbeat,
Lungfish,
Morten Harket,
Black Pus,
Dual Sessions,
Funkadelic,
Kas Product,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kerri Chandler,
Soft Cell,
The Electric Prunes,
Stockholm Monsters,
Matthew Halsall,
the Normal,
the Swans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
China Crisis,
John Coltrane,
Albert Ayler,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Derrick Morgan,
Idris Muhammad,
Dave Gahan,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pagans,
Moebius,
T. Rex,
The Durutti Column,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ronan,
Lalo Schifrin,
Crime,
Gabor Szabo,
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.