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 Nauru and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-101,
Jacob Miller,
Rekid,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Evens,
Camberwell Now,
Negative Approach,
Quando Quango,
Radio Birdman,
Maurizio,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Remains,
Tom Boy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Drexciya,
The Fortunes,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Fall,
Joe Smooth,
Massinfluence,
Lower 48,
Nick Fraelich,
Black Flag,
Alphaville,
Niagra,
The Moody Blues,
Moebius,
the Human League,
48th St. Collective,
AZ,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Accadde A,
Don Cherry,
Echospace,
Alice Coltrane,
Minor Threat,
Hardrive,
Sonic Youth,
Delta 5,
Mo-Dettes,
Eve St. Jones,
The Misunderstood,
Ornette Coleman,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Zeros,
Faust,
ABC,
Wally Richardson,
Loose Ends,
Skarface,
cv313,
Lightning Bolt,
Anakelly,
June of 44,
Trumans Water,
Mantronix,
Newcleus,
Model 500,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.