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 Monaco and from Paris.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Livin' Joy to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Joyce Sims,
Eden Ahbez,
Gichy Dan,
Eve St. Jones,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Howard Jones,
These Immortal Souls,
Ultravox,
The Shadows of Knight,
Inner City,
KRS-One,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Loose Ends,
Crispy Ambulance,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Neon Judgement,
Dennis Brown,
Bronski Beat,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eric Dolphy,
Fugazi,
The Remains,
David Bowie,
Ohio Players,
Ultra Naté,
Ken Boothe,
Rotary Connection,
Guru Guru,
Severed Heads,
La Düsseldorf,
The Five Americans,
Kerrie Biddell,
Joy Division,
Bobby Womack,
Fluxion,
The Gun Club,
Basic Channel,
Pantytec,
The Evens,
Fat Boys,
The Toasters,
The Dead C,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Velvet Underground,
Toni Rubio,
The Saints,
Dawn Penn,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sonic Youth,
Marshall Jefferson,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Neu!,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eli Mardock,
The Techniques,
Matthew Bourne,
Fatback Band,
Grey Daturas,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.