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 Qatar and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Kerri Chandler to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
The Fugs,
Stetsasonic,
Byron Stingily,
Eric Copeland,
Buzzcocks,
Flash Fearless,
The Pretty Things,
H. Thieme,
Swell Maps,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Scan 7,
The Kinks,
Arthur Verocai,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sandy B,
the Normal,
Pere Ubu,
Scrapy,
the Slits,
Niagra,
Graham Central Station,
Black Bananas,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Fall,
E-Dancer,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
T.S.O.L.,
Roxy Music,
Stiv Bators,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Doors,
Ohio Players,
Rites of Spring,
Metal Thangz,
Gichy Dan,
Con Funk Shun,
Radiohead,
Livin' Joy,
LL Cool J,
Gil Scott Heron,
Barry Ungar,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lightning Bolt,
The Smoke,
Johnny Clarke,
Vladislav Delay,
Grauzone,
Al Stewart,
Bobby Womack,
Big Daddy Kane,
Iggy Pop,
The Moody Blues,
ABC,
Mark Hollis,
Icehouse,
Ornette Coleman,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.