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 East Timor and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro 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 Joyce Sims to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pulsallama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Crash Course in Science,
Wire,
The Raincoats,
Livin' Joy,
Altered Images,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Association,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Technova,
Sight & Sound,
Royal Trux,
Rakim,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Skaos,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Scan 7,
Jandek,
Chris & Cosey,
The Victims,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
8 Eyed Spy,
Grauzone,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Yazoo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Infiniti,
Glenn Branca,
Curtis Mayfield,
Little Man,
China Crisis,
Bronski Beat,
L. Decosne,
The Human League,
The Mummies,
Johnny Osbourne,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ituana,
Massinfluence,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Reuben Wilson,
Matthew Halsall,
Peter & Gordon,
The Searchers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lalo Schifrin,
Howard Jones,
Inner City,
Suicide,
Public Enemy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
James Chance & The Contortions,
FM Einheit,
U.S. Maple,
Hashim,
Jerry Gold Smith,
A Certain Ratio,
The Neon Judgement,
Minnie Riperton,
Lyres,
Todd Terry,
Porter Ricks,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.