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 Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 linndrum 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric B and Rakim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cramps,
Moss Icon,
FM Einheit,
Stetsasonic,
Wally Richardson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Talk Talk,
the Slits,
Aswad,
Half Japanese,
Angry Samoans,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Arthur Verocai,
Scratch Acid,
Das Ding,
Minny Pops,
Inner City,
the Association,
Jeff Lynne,
the Sonics,
Amon Düül II,
Glambeats Corp.,
Swell Maps,
Arab on Radar,
Yellowson,
Lou Christie,
Freddie Wadling,
New Order,
Television Personalities,
Eden Ahbez,
kango's stein massive,
Faraquet,
Section 25,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Tres Demented,
Robert Görl,
Letta Mbulu,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ice-T,
Kerri Chandler,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Nico,
Dennis Brown,
MC5,
Procol Harum,
The Velvet Underground,
CMW,
The Beau Brummels,
Parry Music,
Ituana,
the Human League,
Unwound,
The Music Machine,
Johnny Osbourne,
Eric Dolphy,
Blossom Toes,
Mo-Dettes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
H. Thieme,
Todd Terry,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.