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 Marshall Islands and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bill Wells to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Men They Couldn't Hang record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
Tom Boy,
New Age Steppers,
Thompson Twins,
OOIOO,
Surgeon,
Swans,
Ronnie Foster,
Panda Bear,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Minny Pops,
Scott Walker,
Michelle Simonal,
Siglo XX,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Judy Mowatt,
Todd Terry,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Donny Hathaway,
Y Pants,
Kenny Larkin,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
James White and The Blacks,
Icehouse,
Godley & Creme,
Rufus Thomas,
Sam Rivers,
the Association,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Techniques,
Ohio Players,
Erykah Badu,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Sound,
X-101,
Mark Hollis,
Technova,
The Moody Blues,
Section 25,
Kas Product,
Los Fastidios,
Country Teasers,
Barbara Tucker,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Tears for Fears,
The Associates,
Robert Görl,
Magazine,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Tommy Roe,
Fat Boys,
Funky Four + One,
Blossom Toes,
Gong,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marcia Griffiths,
Nas,
Warsaw,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cal Tjader,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Television,
Alison Limerick,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.