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 Angola and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Paris.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Au Pairs to the grime 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes. All the underground hits.
All K-Klass tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
John Lydon,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ultimate Spinach,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Crispy Ambulance,
Malaria!,
Can,
8 Eyed Spy,
Arthur Verocai,
Trumans Water,
Rotary Connection,
Colin Newman,
Oblivians,
The Fire Engines,
Ten City,
Sixth Finger,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ultra Naté,
Sparks,
Surgeon,
Whodini,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
David Bowie,
Nick Fraelich,
Derrick May,
Fela Kuti,
A Certain Ratio,
Magma,
Wally Richardson,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ponytail,
Radiopuhelimet,
Funky Four + One,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Davy DMX,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pylon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barrington Levy,
The Index,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Reagan Youth,
Lakeside,
Freddie Wadling,
Laurel Aitken,
Aswad,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fugazi,
The Standells,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Monolake,
Crooked Eye,
The Grass Roots,
Peter and Kerry,
Deakin,
Alison Limerick,
Nik Kershaw,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.