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 Croatia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 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 Chris & Cosey to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Archie Shepp,
Aural Exciters,
Morten Harket,
Smog,
Godley & Creme,
Matthew Bourne,
Nick Fraelich,
Babytalk,
Eric Dolphy,
The Buckinghams,
Zero Boys,
Flash Fearless,
L. Decosne,
Animal Collective,
Robert Hood,
Stetsasonic,
Arthur Verocai,
Drexciya,
Lyres,
Wings,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Human League,
Max Romeo,
Sparks,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Janne Schatter,
Nils Olav,
Traffic Nightmare,
Funkadelic,
The Star Department,
Roger Hodgson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Arcadia,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Evens,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mary Jane Girls,
Circle Jerks,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ten City,
Swell Maps,
Radiopuhelimet,
Mars,
The Smoke,
Second Layer,
Intrusion,
Gabor Szabo,
Eurythmics,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bizarre Inc.,
Brand Nubian,
Skaos,
DNA,
Absolute Body Control,
Ice-T,
Television,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
China Crisis,
Minnie Riperton,
Donald Byrd,
Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes.
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.