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 San Marino and from Shanghai.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 spring reverb 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 Reagan Youth to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Grey Daturas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ludus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Todd Terry,
Adolescents,
LL Cool J,
The Blues Magoos,
Grey Daturas,
Monks,
China Crisis,
Dorothy Ashby,
Underground Resistance,
Absolute Body Control,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Marc Almond,
June Days,
Nas,
Black Bananas,
Black Flag,
Visage,
Amazonics,
Spandau Ballet,
The Moody Blues,
Nils Olav,
Tropical Tobacco,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Juan Atkins,
Althea and Donna,
The Red Krayola,
Ronan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Funkadelic,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Hardrive,
Rod Modell,
Quantec,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sonic Youth,
Unwound,
Pole,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marvin Gaye,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Brass Construction,
Warren Ellis,
Flash Fearless,
Janne Schatter,
Gang Starr,
Rakim,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Sonics,
the Swans,
Vladislav Delay,
World's Most,
The Last Poets,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Pretty Things,
Darondo,
The Velvet Underground,
Simply Red,
Stetsasonic,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
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.