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 Romania and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Cairo.
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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Busters to the rock 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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oppenheimer Analysis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maurizio,
Albert Ayler,
Radiohead,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Count Five,
Organ,
The Martian,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pantaleimon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scrapy,
Bob Dylan,
Mo-Dettes,
Cal Tjader,
In Retrospect,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Theoretical Girls,
Lightning Bolt,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kevin Saunderson,
Vainqueur,
June of 44,
ABBA,
Joey Negro,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ronan,
Colin Newman,
X-102,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Sonics,
Leonard Cohen,
Marcia Griffiths,
Fluxion,
F. McDonald,
Terry Callier,
The Moody Blues,
cv313,
Soft Machine,
Funky Four + One,
Howard Jones,
Japan,
Siglo XX,
Rapeman,
Sandy B,
Todd Terry,
Ornette Coleman,
Jawbox,
Sex Pistols,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Invisible,
Maleditus Sound,
Bobby Sherman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Misunderstood,
Qualms,
Deepchord,
Pagans,
Essential Logic,
Black Moon,
The Index,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.