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 Sri Lanka and from Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and New York.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All Ralphi Rosario tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Arthur Verocai,
Suburban Knight,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Dave Gahan,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Swans,
Spoonie Gee,
8 Eyed Spy,
Swans,
Rufus Thomas,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Happenings,
Circle Jerks,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Blackbyrds,
Joe Smooth,
E-Dancer,
Alice Coltrane,
Royal Trux,
The Gun Club,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Scientists,
Moby Grape,
Desert Stars,
Cameo,
Lou Christie,
Bad Manners,
Ronnie Foster,
Chrome,
Slave,
The Count Five,
Gastr Del Sol,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Maurizio,
The Modern Lovers,
the Normal,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sex Pistols,
Grey Daturas,
The Sound,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kenny Larkin,
The Dave Clark Five,
Funky Four + One,
Ohio Players,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Blues Magoos,
Groovy Waters,
The Pop Group,
Man Eating Sloth,
Camberwell Now,
The Wake,
Popol Vuh,
Soul II Soul,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich.
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.