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 Guinea and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 güiro 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 Main Source to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Lee Hazlewood. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
cv313,
Robert Görl,
The Pretty Things,
the Sonics,
The Searchers,
Sonny Sharrock,
Shoche,
Von Mondo,
Oneida,
The Fall,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
OOIOO,
Television Personalities,
Pharoah Sanders,
Blossom Toes,
E-Dancer,
The Invisible,
Bootsy Collins,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Mummies,
Blancmange,
Kool Moe Dee,
Barrington Levy,
Absolute Body Control,
The Evens,
The Detroit Cobras,
MC5,
Reuben Wilson,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Supertramp,
X-101,
Yaz,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Country Teasers,
Graham Central Station,
Tubeway Army,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Andrew Hill,
Nick Fraelich,
Sex Pistols,
The Black Dice,
Whodini,
Kenny Larkin,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scion,
Siglo XX,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Marine Girls,
Sun City Girls,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lakeside,
The Birthday Party,
Animal Collective,
The Grass Roots,
Lower 48,
Au Pairs,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
kango's stein massive,
Urselle,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.