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 Canada and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Winnipeg.
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 rhodes 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 Todd Rundgren to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bobby Womack. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
The Leaves,
Popol Vuh,
Junior Murvin,
Magazine,
Animal Collective,
Donny Hathaway,
Jerry's Kids,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Patti Smith,
Easy Going,
The Monochrome Set,
Rotary Connection,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Blackbyrds,
Colin Newman,
Panda Bear,
Curtis Mayfield,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Fugs,
Electric Prunes,
Marc Almond,
Ice-T,
These Immortal Souls,
Pantytec,
Judy Mowatt,
Lalann,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
AZ,
The Smoke,
Cybotron,
Joensuu 1685,
The Fire Engines,
Faraquet,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
FM Einheit,
Lower 48,
Pole,
The Fall,
a-ha,
Dennis Brown,
Vainqueur,
Franke,
Quadrant,
Terry Callier,
Warren Ellis,
Flipper,
Albert Ayler,
Erasure,
Jeff Mills,
Davy DMX,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Duran Duran,
Ken Boothe,
Bad Manners,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Alice Coltrane,
Joe Smooth,
The Wake,
Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day.
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.