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 Antigua and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Jesus and Mary Chain to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Drive Like Jehu,
Hashim,
Bill Wells,
Scott Walker,
Maleditus Sound,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Robert Wyatt,
Dave Gahan,
Animal Collective,
The Gun Club,
Depeche Mode,
Cameo,
The Young Rascals,
Flash Fearless,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Soul Sonic Force,
Brick,
Joensuu 1685,
Arcadia,
the Slits,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
New Order,
Nils Olav,
Althea and Donna,
Joey Negro,
The Blues Magoos,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Fugs,
Index,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Evens,
Japan,
Make Up,
Bobby Byrd,
John Coltrane,
Pole,
The Moleskins,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Alarm Clocks,
Wings,
Magazine,
The Golliwogs,
Monolake,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Victims,
Bronski Beat,
Scrapy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joyce Sims,
Soul II Soul,
Khruangbin,
The Busters,
Flipper,
Model 500,
Fela Kuti,
The Offenders,
Pere Ubu,
The Slits, The Slits, The Slits, The Slits.
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.