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 Vanuatu and from Sao Paulo.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Brand Nubian to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Fela Kuti,
Television Personalities,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Nico,
Radiohead,
Godley & Creme,
kango's stein massive,
Warsaw,
Lightning Bolt,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jacques Brel,
Slick Rick,
Bad Manners,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bauhaus,
Cybotron,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Neon Judgement,
Minny Pops,
The Moleskins,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Silicon Teens,
Urselle,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Arab on Radar,
The Durutti Column,
Tim Buckley,
Altered Images,
Mark Hollis,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Divine Comedy,
Roxette,
Scientists,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Supertramp,
The Cramps,
New York Dolls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Zapp,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Slave,
Sandy B,
The Music Machine,
The Searchers,
Monolake,
The Tremeloes,
Eli Mardock,
Letta Mbulu,
Banda Bassotti,
ABBA,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kurtis Blow,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.