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 Suriname and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Donald Fagen 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 Quadrant to the funk 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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marmalade 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wire,
Neil Young,
Soul Sonic Force,
Metal Thangz,
H. Thieme,
Smog,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Martian,
Prince Buster,
Mantronix,
Erykah Badu,
Alison Limerick,
Don Cherry,
Outsiders,
Essential Logic,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Move,
Roxy Music,
Mad Mike,
The Fugs,
Althea and Donna,
Q and Not U,
Lower 48,
The Evens,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Cowsills,
Boogie Down Productions,
Scrapy,
Scott Walker,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Porter Ricks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Clear Light,
Jeff Mills,
Surgeon,
Altered Images,
Iggy Pop,
Lucky Dragons,
Ponytail,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nick Fraelich,
Al Stewart,
Gong,
Rekid,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Nico,
Eli Mardock,
Dual Sessions,
Qualms,
Electric Prunes,
Shuggie Otis,
The J.B.'s,
Television,
Minny Pops,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Letta Mbulu,
AZ,
June of 44,
Ronnie Foster,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.