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 Ukraine and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Silicon Teens to the electroclash 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All The Dead C tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat 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?
Chrome,
Althea and Donna,
Piero Umiliani,
Matthew Halsall,
Nas,
Gong,
Kenny Larkin,
ABC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Los Fastidios,
Cymande,
Zapp,
Byron Stingily,
Television,
Nirvana,
X-102,
The Litter,
Scientists,
Bobby Womack,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ohio Players,
Aloha Tigers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
FM Einheit,
Drive Like Jehu,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Roxette,
Terry Callier,
Mission of Burma,
Joe Smooth,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Michelle Simonal,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Dead C,
Chris & Cosey,
Urselle,
Porter Ricks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Trojans,
Ronan,
Tubeway Army,
Crime,
Wolf Eyes,
The Smoke,
Section 25,
The Gories,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Stockholm Monsters,
John Holt,
The Moleskins,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The American Breed,
Fatback Band,
Trumans Water,
The Blues Magoos,
Gang Green,
In Retrospect,
The Pretty Things,
the Bar-Kays,
Cal Tjader,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.