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 Chad and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 synthesizer 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 Lebanon Hanover to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultra Naté,
Zapp,
Sexual Harrassment,
John Lydon,
Dave Gahan,
Mandrill,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Brass Construction,
Danielle Patucci,
Rites of Spring,
New Order,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Stooges,
Throbbing Gristle,
Minutemen,
Henry Cow,
The New Christs,
Joe Smooth,
Electric Prunes,
T.S.O.L.,
The Fall,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ornette Coleman,
Cybotron,
Gichy Dan,
Marvin Gaye,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Moebius,
June of 44,
World's Most,
Donald Byrd,
The Fortunes,
Aaron Thompson,
Public Image Ltd.,
June Days,
Nas,
U.S. Maple,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Khruangbin,
Hardrive,
Glenn Branca,
The Five Americans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Moody Blues,
Juan Atkins,
Livin' Joy,
The Sound,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rotary Connection,
Tom Boy,
Au Pairs,
Theoretical Girls,
Hasil Adkins,
Gang Gang Dance,
ABBA,
Excepter,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Stetsasonic,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.