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 Qatar and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Shuggie Otis,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pulsallama,
The American Breed,
Oneida,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Drexciya,
Skriet,
Amon Düül,
The Move,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bad Manners,
Avey Tare,
Crash Course in Science,
Dark Day,
Easy Going,
The Selecter,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jandek,
Jeff Mills,
The Gap Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Mo-Dettes,
Pagans,
Black Sheep,
Thompson Twins,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lungfish,
Smog,
The Count Five,
Colin Newman,
Nico,
Chris & Cosey,
Robert Hood,
Wire,
Agitation Free,
The Mojo Men,
Grey Daturas,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Quando Quango,
Fela Kuti,
Lou Reed,
Make Up,
Silicon Teens,
The Mummies,
The Fuzztones,
Minnie Riperton,
Sugar Minott,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Patti Smith,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Cybotron,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Eve St. Jones,
Roger Hodgson,
Country Teasers,
Boredoms,
Alison Limerick,
Gong,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Guru Guru,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.