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 Oman and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 marimba 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the funk 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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Frankie Knuckles tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
Absolute Body Control,
Fugazi,
The Litter,
Sun Ra,
Lucky Dragons,
Rekid,
Delta 5,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Echospace,
Jimmy McGriff,
The American Breed,
Janne Schatter,
H. Thieme,
Archie Shepp,
The Sound,
Brick,
Arab on Radar,
Von Mondo,
The Zeros,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Althea and Donna,
the Soft Cell,
The Offenders,
Gregory Isaacs,
Laurel Aitken,
Average White Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Circle Jerks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Spoonie Gee,
Eve St. Jones,
Bill Near,
Byron Stingily,
D'Angelo,
Albert Ayler,
Kerrie Biddell,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Saccharine Trust,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Au Pairs,
Ponytail,
Guru Guru,
Soulsonic Force,
Agitation Free,
The Vogues,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Reagan Youth,
The Residents,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sarah Menescal,
ABBA,
Procol Harum,
Glenn Branca,
Erykah Badu,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Amazonics,
Buzzcocks,
The Fire Engines,
Jeff Mills,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.