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 Guatemala and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Supertramp to the grime 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 The Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
The Residents,
The Happenings,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
a-ha,
The Doors,
The Invisible,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Q and Not U,
Todd Terry,
Jesper Dahlback,
Vladislav Delay,
Saccharine Trust,
Hoover,
Lucky Dragons,
MC5,
Ronnie Foster,
Easy Going,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Cybotron,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Babytalk,
Suburban Knight,
Patti Smith,
The Buckinghams,
Eden Ahbez,
Magma,
Jandek,
Popol Vuh,
Television,
UT,
Sound Behaviour,
Gerry Rafferty,
Max Romeo,
Ice-T,
the Bar-Kays,
Warsaw,
X-102,
Kool Moe Dee,
Theoretical Girls,
Blossom Toes,
Reuben Wilson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Boz Scaggs,
The Gap Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Agitation Free,
Soulsonic Force,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Von Mondo,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pylon,
Henry Cow,
the Slits,
Slave,
Stetsasonic,
Big Daddy Kane,
Newcleus,
8 Eyed Spy,
Shoche,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bronski Beat,
Public Image Ltd.,
Los Fastidios,
Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance.
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.