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 Haiti and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 arpeggiator 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 Motorama to the jazz 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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Qualms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pierre Henry,
This Heat,
Peter and Kerry,
R.M.O.,
CMW,
Flipper,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Evens,
Moby Grape,
Cymande,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Slits,
Shuggie Otis,
Barbara Tucker,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Monolake,
Marine Girls,
Half Japanese,
Metal Thangz,
Cal Tjader,
Duran Duran,
Mars,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Offenders,
Magma,
Electric Prunes,
The Wake,
Minny Pops,
The Invisible,
Glambeats Corp.,
Grauzone,
Alphaville,
Yellowson,
48th St. Collective,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Delta 5,
The Fuzztones,
Tomorrow,
Kenny Larkin,
H. Thieme,
John Lydon,
Ludus,
Brand Nubian,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lou Reed,
T.S.O.L.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Standells,
Kayak,
Wally Richardson,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The J.B.'s,
Cybotron,
The Barracudas,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.