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 Guinea-Bissau 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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 Von Mondo to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Cal Tjader,
Con Funk Shun,
a-ha,
Scientists,
MDC,
John Coltrane,
Dark Day,
New Order,
kango's stein massive,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mantronix,
The Victims,
Electric Light Orchestra,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Public Enemy,
Ohio Players,
Rhythm & Sound,
Robert Görl,
Agent Orange,
Dead Boys,
The Skatalites,
Alphaville,
Thompson Twins,
Swell Maps,
Flipper,
Soft Machine,
The American Breed,
Chris & Cosey,
Lyres,
The Alarm Clocks,
Maleditus Sound,
Ossler,
David McCallum,
H. Thieme,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Associates,
Howard Jones,
Michelle Simonal,
The Kinks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Yaz,
Malaria!,
The Fortunes,
Deadbeat,
Leonard Cohen,
The J.B.'s,
Ultra Naté,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gabor Szabo,
Isaac Hayes,
Eric B and Rakim,
Vladislav Delay,
The Grass Roots,
The Cure,
John Foxx,
MC5,
Minutemen,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.