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 Malta and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Camberwell Now to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Litter,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Birthday Party,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Derrick Morgan,
Cybotron,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Graham Central Station,
New York Dolls,
The American Breed,
Easy Going,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lakeside,
The Residents,
Lebanon Hanover,
Girls At Our Best!,
Young Marble Giants,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
James White and The Blacks,
Pantytec,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Yellowson,
The Mummies,
The Modern Lovers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Sonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Intrusion,
Pole,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Techniques,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ultimate Spinach,
Brick,
Mandrill,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Au Pairs,
Robert Wyatt,
Pierre Henry,
Archie Shepp,
Crooked Eye,
Bootsy Collins,
Maleditus Sound,
CMW,
Crash Course in Science,
In Retrospect,
Dennis Brown,
Skarface,
Joy Division,
Black Bananas,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Delta 5,
Rakim,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Quantec,
Subhumans,
Blossom Toes,
The Moleskins,
Pantaleimon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.