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 Kuwait and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 The Offenders to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ken Boothe. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doobie Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Josef K,
Theoretical Girls,
Rakim,
Roxette,
Adolescents,
X-101,
Eddi Front,
Oneida,
Robert Wyatt,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cluster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Juan Atkins,
The Leaves,
The Searchers,
Black Moon,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kurtis Blow,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
the Fania All-Stars,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nico,
Duran Duran,
John Cale,
Sarah Menescal,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Andrew Hill,
Franke,
Carl Craig,
Cheater Slicks,
Schoolly D,
Pantaleimon,
Bronski Beat,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sun Ra,
The New Christs,
Clear Light,
The Invisible,
Drexciya,
Barclay James Harvest,
Albert Ayler,
Minutemen,
The Standells,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gerry Rafferty,
Negative Approach,
MC5,
Aswad,
La Düsseldorf,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Wally Richardson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
F. McDonald,
John Foxx,
Country Teasers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
June Days,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Neu!,
Barrington Levy,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.