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 Chad and from Shanghai.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 rhodes 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 Japan to the rock 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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tomorrow,
Simply Red,
The Five Americans,
Lalann,
Thee Headcoats,
Basic Channel,
Duran Duran,
Silicon Teens,
Crispy Ambulance,
Black Bananas,
Main Source,
The Fall,
Joe Finger,
the Normal,
Can,
The Walker Brothers,
The Happenings,
Sex Pistols,
John Lydon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Wasted Youth,
Second Layer,
Oneida,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Warren Ellis,
Jawbox,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Marine Girls,
Marcia Griffiths,
Dorothy Ashby,
E-Dancer,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Negative Approach,
Gastr Del Sol,
Neu!,
Ituana,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Gories,
JFA,
MDC,
FM Einheit,
Ultra Naté,
Camouflage,
a-ha,
Albert Ayler,
48th St. Collective,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
David McCallum,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Aaron Thompson,
Popol Vuh,
Leonard Cohen,
The Young Rascals,
Pantytec,
Khruangbin,
Thompson Twins,
Archie Shepp,
The Wake,
The Gladiators,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.