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 Syria and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 snare 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 The Grass Roots to the jazz 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 Suburban Knight. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool Moe Dee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
Saccharine Trust,
Swans,
Fear,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Inner City,
Ultravox,
Todd Rundgren,
Josef K,
The Motions,
Audionom,
Eli Mardock,
Altered Images,
ABBA,
Model 500,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rufus Thomas,
Maurizio,
CMW,
The Cure,
Newcleus,
New Order,
The American Breed,
the Normal,
D'Angelo,
Archie Shepp,
Fugazi,
Lucky Dragons,
Sun City Girls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
New Age Steppers,
the Association,
L. Decosne,
The Flesh Eaters,
Wings,
Shuggie Otis,
Deakin,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
OOIOO,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Groovy Waters,
John Lydon,
Livin' Joy,
The Vogues,
Qualms,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Dawn Penn,
James White and The Blacks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Freddie Wadling,
Boredoms,
Terry Callier,
Amazonics,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Banda Bassotti,
The Fuzztones,
Youth Brigade,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.