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 Australia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 chamberlin 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 Flipper to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
One Last Wish,
Section 25,
Lalann,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sparks,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pole,
Livin' Joy,
Kenny Larkin,
Groovy Waters,
The Music Machine,
Young Marble Giants,
Malaria!,
John Holt,
The Mummies,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Minor Threat,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Khruangbin,
Mad Mike,
These Immortal Souls,
Eve St. Jones,
Wally Richardson,
Essential Logic,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mark Hollis,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Prince Buster,
Alton Ellis,
Supertramp,
The Names,
Neu!,
Massinfluence,
Drive Like Jehu,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Parry Music,
Porter Ricks,
Brass Construction,
Mars,
Bronski Beat,
Aswad,
Soul II Soul,
Eurythmics,
Howard Jones,
Swell Maps,
The Golliwogs,
Ultravox,
The Durutti Column,
MC5,
Cluster,
Moebius,
David Axelrod,
The Seeds,
Bobby Sherman,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
DJ Sneak,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Intrusion,
Lakeside,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.