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 Benin and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 organ 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 K-Klass to the rap 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 Pere Ubu. All the underground hits.
All Traffic Nightmare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rapeman,
F. McDonald,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Y Pants,
Country Teasers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Cure,
The Motions,
Brick,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Magazine,
Funkadelic,
Connie Case,
The Durutti Column,
Goldenarms,
Peter and Kerry,
Hardrive,
The Gap Band,
Janne Schatter,
Ponytail,
The New Christs,
The Kinks,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
K-Klass,
Bauhaus,
Aswad,
Warren Ellis,
Groovy Waters,
Bob Dylan,
Cymande,
Audionom,
Kayak,
The Fire Engines,
Sonic Youth,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Crooked Eye,
Harry Pussy,
Oblivians,
Ronnie Foster,
Leonard Cohen,
The Wake,
Nik Kershaw,
the Swans,
Television Personalities,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
These Immortal Souls,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Cowsills,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Trumans Water,
Subhumans,
Robert Wyatt,
Lebanon Hanover,
Roger Hodgson,
Eurythmics,
Clear Light,
John Lydon,
Marmalade,
Malaria!,
Nick Fraelich,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.