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 Lithuania and from Columbus.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Ultramagnetic MC's to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stockholm Monsters 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
In Retrospect,
Can,
Glenn Branca,
The Leaves,
Unrelated Segments,
Monolake,
Radiohead,
Tears for Fears,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scion,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Crooked Eye,
Ituana,
Black Bananas,
EPMD,
Isaac Hayes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Boogie Down Productions,
A Certain Ratio,
The Tremeloes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Leonard Cohen,
Wire,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lungfish,
Zapp,
Chris Corsano,
Brick,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Misunderstood,
Henry Cow,
Model 500,
Slick Rick,
The Shadows of Knight,
Stetsasonic,
Donald Byrd,
Panda Bear,
Minor Threat,
One Last Wish,
Letta Mbulu,
U.S. Maple,
New Age Steppers,
Hasil Adkins,
Arab on Radar,
The Remains,
Popol Vuh,
Scrapy,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
James White and The Blacks,
Stiv Bators,
Ronan,
Wasted Youth,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Schoolly D,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Faraquet,
Essential Logic,
The Invisible,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.