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 Andorra and from Sao Paulo.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Beasts of Bourbon to the electroclash 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang of Four record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Flipper,
Barrington Levy,
Wings,
Cheater Slicks,
The Monks,
Scott Walker,
Soul II Soul,
The Happenings,
Lungfish,
Accadde A,
Ponytail,
In Retrospect,
Newcleus,
Robert Wyatt,
Curtis Mayfield,
DNA,
Barry Ungar,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gang of Four,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
UT,
The Divine Comedy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Vladislav Delay,
The Red Krayola,
Eli Mardock,
Trumans Water,
U.S. Maple,
KRS-One,
John Cale,
Black Bananas,
Faraquet,
Panda Bear,
Derrick May,
Sixth Finger,
Lou Christie,
JFA,
Josef K,
PIL,
Marcia Griffiths,
Joensuu 1685,
Groovy Waters,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Remains,
The Doobie Brothers,
Wire,
The Evens,
Ludus,
Joy Division,
Unrelated Segments,
The Beau Brummels,
The J.B.'s,
Anthony Braxton,
The Move,
Motorama,
Youth Brigade,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters.
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.