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 Benin and from Bologna.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Deakin to the crunk 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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pagans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deadbeat,
Warren Ellis,
Junior Murvin,
Scratch Acid,
Todd Terry,
Roxy Music,
Marmalade,
Carl Craig,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
kango's stein massive,
The Monochrome Set,
Joyce Sims,
Swell Maps,
The Evens,
Zero Boys,
Mars,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Black Pus,
Pulsallama,
Cal Tjader,
KRS-One,
Crooked Eye,
The American Breed,
The Zeros,
The Doors,
Letta Mbulu,
Fatback Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Suburban Knight,
Arthur Verocai,
Rosa Yemen,
The Selecter,
Yazoo,
Saccharine Trust,
Minny Pops,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Niagra,
The Happenings,
The Blackbyrds,
David McCallum,
The Velvet Underground,
Bob Dylan,
Magazine,
Black Moon,
Hashim,
Tommy Roe,
Gang of Four,
Pylon,
Television Personalities,
OOIOO,
Average White Band,
the Germs,
The Count Five,
Funky Four + One,
Sonny Sharrock,
Black Bananas,
Talk Talk,
Amon Düül II,
Sight & Sound,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.