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 Cuba and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 guitar 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 Ohio Players to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott Heron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Smog,
the Swans,
Peter & Gordon,
Marmalade,
Neil Young,
The Gun Club,
Angry Samoans,
Jacob Miller,
Kerri Chandler,
Intrusion,
Tears for Fears,
Oneida,
Ronan,
John Foxx,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Audionom,
Khruangbin,
Deepchord,
Michelle Simonal,
The Martian,
The J.B.'s,
Tom Boy,
kango's stein massive,
Joe Finger,
Malaria!,
Terry Callier,
The Moody Blues,
Technova,
Eli Mardock,
Deadbeat,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bootsy Collins,
Public Image Ltd.,
Warren Ellis,
Eddi Front,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Parry Music,
Lalann,
Juan Atkins,
Alice Coltrane,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Skriet,
Soul II Soul,
Jandek,
Rosa Yemen,
The Knickerbockers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Fall,
AZ,
Joyce Sims,
Wolf Eyes,
OOIOO,
Trumans Water,
The Fuzztones,
Derrick Morgan,
Rekid,
Mad Mike,
Scion,
The Doors,
The Walker Brothers,
Cluster,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.