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 the UAE and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sad Lovers and Giants to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terror Squad Feat. Camron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arab on Radar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Desert Stars,
The Leaves,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mars,
Amon Düül,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
D'Angelo,
Symarip,
Drexciya,
Rotary Connection,
Con Funk Shun,
Goldenarms,
PIL,
Neu!,
Negative Approach,
Soft Cell,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
the Fania All-Stars,
Simply Red,
Rufus Thomas,
Sex Pistols,
10cc,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
John Holt,
Bobby Womack,
Scientists,
EPMD,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Visage,
Ronnie Foster,
Gang Green,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Soft Machine,
Harpers Bizarre,
Archie Shepp,
Delta 5,
Theoretical Girls,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Flesh Eaters,
Kerri Chandler,
Neil Young,
The Remains,
Model 500,
Guru Guru,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Young Marble Giants,
Absolute Body Control,
Black Pus,
Jeff Lynne,
Stockholm Monsters,
Vladislav Delay,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Masters at Work,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Popol Vuh,
One Last Wish,
The Shadows of Knight,
Magma, Magma, Magma, Magma.
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.