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 Bulgaria and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Robert Palmer 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 Moss Icon to the techno 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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fear,
CMW,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Flash Fearless,
Derrick May,
Dawn Penn,
Glenn Branca,
The Dave Clark Five,
Public Enemy,
Hasil Adkins,
The Fire Engines,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Black Pus,
John Holt,
Radiohead,
The Barracudas,
the Human League,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Maleditus Sound,
The Smoke,
Ronan,
Sister Nancy,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Man Eating Sloth,
Infiniti,
Procol Harum,
Michelle Simonal,
Ludus,
Arcadia,
Kool Moe Dee,
ABC,
Junior Murvin,
Godley & Creme,
the Slits,
The Searchers,
Alison Limerick,
The Young Rascals,
Cameo,
Johnny Clarke,
John Foxx,
Massinfluence,
Grey Daturas,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bang On A Can,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Count Five,
Unwound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Soft Cell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Echospace,
Tommy Roe,
Anthony Braxton,
Cluster,
Marcia Griffiths,
Crooked Eye,
the Association,
Harmonia,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.