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 Seychelles and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Infiniti to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pole record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Babytalk,
The Knickerbockers,
Jacob Miller,
Q and Not U,
Kevin Saunderson,
Fear,
Drive Like Jehu,
Tres Demented,
Bauhaus,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Happenings,
This Heat,
Tubeway Army,
Cybotron,
Pole,
X-102,
Severed Heads,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kenny Larkin,
New Age Steppers,
Smog,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Infiniti,
Max Romeo,
Pharoah Sanders,
Morten Harket,
MC5,
The Mojo Men,
Yusef Lateef,
Sound Behaviour,
Scion,
The Seeds,
Lyres,
The Leaves,
Symarip,
The Vogues,
Mission of Burma,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Stiv Bators,
Cheater Slicks,
Lungfish,
Heaven 17,
the Bar-Kays,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bob Dylan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Residents,
Joy Division,
cv313,
New Order,
Cecil Taylor,
Eric Dolphy,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rhythm & Sound,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Fugazi,
The Neon Judgement,
Letta Mbulu,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.