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 Peru and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 theremin 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 Gories to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ultra Naté tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ 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 linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
Sister Nancy,
Half Japanese,
Radiohead,
Black Pus,
Max Romeo,
Bluetip,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sonny Sharrock,
Moss Icon,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ituana,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ossler,
Clear Light,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Heaven 17,
The Seeds,
The Gun Club,
Robert Hood,
Silicon Teens,
Ice-T,
Aaron Thompson,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bill Near,
Nirvana,
The Fall,
Johnny Osbourne,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Todd Terry,
48th St. Collective,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Gories,
The Knickerbockers,
Ronan,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Donald Byrd,
Sandy B,
Television Personalities,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Neon Judgement,
Glenn Branca,
Zero Boys,
Popol Vuh,
Groovy Waters,
Lungfish,
Jerry's Kids,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Magazine,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camberwell Now,
The Motions,
The Black Dice,
John Cale,
Simply Red,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Agent Orange,
Newcleus,
The Tremeloes,
Mo-Dettes,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.