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 Singapore and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 theremin 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 Ohio Players to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All New York Dolls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo 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 linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Todd Rundgren,
Second Layer,
KRS-One,
Crash Course in Science,
Oblivians,
Junior Murvin,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Alison Limerick,
Chrome,
The Residents,
The Pop Group,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Frankie Knuckles,
Boz Scaggs,
New York Dolls,
The Leaves,
Joy Division,
Eddi Front,
Duran Duran,
Lower 48,
Traffic Nightmare,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lindisfarne,
Moby Grape,
Tommy Roe,
Kevin Saunderson,
Desert Stars,
Essential Logic,
Donny Hathaway,
These Immortal Souls,
Deakin,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Amon Düül,
Scott Walker,
The Cramps,
Liliput,
Circle Jerks,
The Blues Magoos,
Morten Harket,
Pierre Henry,
Gichy Dan,
the Germs,
Amazonics,
the Swans,
Schoolly D,
Depeche Mode,
The Associates,
The Flesh Eaters,
JFA,
Qualms,
B.T. Express,
Siglo XX,
Grauzone,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lakeside,
Kaleidoscope,
Audionom,
Warren Ellis,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.