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 South Sudan and from Beijing.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the oboe 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 London Community Gospel Choir to the punk 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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lightning Bolt 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mark Hollis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bad Manners,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Quadrant,
The Slits,
Jeff Lynne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Marcia Griffiths,
Eve St. Jones,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nas,
Henry Cow,
Livin' Joy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Tom Boy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Anakelly,
The Kinks,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Dirtbombs,
Barrington Levy,
Crime,
the Human League,
Supertramp,
Ten City,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Moss Icon,
Visage,
Laurel Aitken,
Tres Demented,
Thee Headcoats,
Von Mondo,
Jacob Miller,
Organ,
Desert Stars,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Big Daddy Kane,
Barbara Tucker,
Malaria!,
Joey Negro,
Lyres,
Can,
The Moleskins,
Ludus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Görl,
Cal Tjader,
Silicon Teens,
Altered Images,
MC5,
Theoretical Girls,
Eden Ahbez,
Gregory Isaacs,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.