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 Japan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Rotary Connection to the grime 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 Kevin Saunderson. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Searchers,
Idris Muhammad,
The Beau Brummels,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Barry Ungar,
E-Dancer,
Ituana,
the Human League,
Josef K,
Wire,
Flash Fearless,
Moss Icon,
Quando Quango,
The Invisible,
La Düsseldorf,
the Fania All-Stars,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Alton Ellis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Foxx,
Qualms,
D'Angelo,
Moby Grape,
Q65,
Throbbing Gristle,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Human League,
Pussy Galore,
Dorothy Ashby,
Roy Ayers,
Roxy Music,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lower 48,
Bobby Womack,
Stetsasonic,
Boredoms,
The Selecter,
Soul II Soul,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ultra Naté,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scrapy,
The Busters,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Essential Logic,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The United States of America,
Brass Construction,
The Gap Band,
The Star Department,
The Divine Comedy,
Scientists,
Tim Buckley,
The Dave Clark Five,
X-102,
Brothers Johnson,
UT,
Grauzone,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Motions,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.