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 Eritrea and from Beijing.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Move to the disco 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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
T.S.O.L.,
Y Pants,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kas Product,
Prince Buster,
Mission of Burma,
X-102,
World's Most,
Royal Trux,
B.T. Express,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Mojo Men,
The United States of America,
Skriet,
Pere Ubu,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Barclay James Harvest,
Byron Stingily,
kango's stein massive,
Gastr Del Sol,
Roger Hodgson,
K-Klass,
Nick Fraelich,
the Normal,
Marcia Griffiths,
the Sonics,
The Standells,
Clear Light,
Magma,
Cybotron,
Interpol,
Stereo Dub,
Lyres,
Warren Ellis,
Eve St. Jones,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dennis Brown,
Sun Ra,
The Kinks,
The Beau Brummels,
Hasil Adkins,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Unrelated Segments,
Radiopuhelimet,
Can,
Fluxion,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Susan Cadogan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Moody Blues,
The Wake,
Bauhaus,
The Tremeloes,
Tropical Tobacco,
Deadbeat,
Accadde A,
Aswad,
Nas,
R.M.O.,
The Young Rascals,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.