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 Hungary and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 arpeggiator 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 Scrapy to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen 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?
Kevin Saunderson,
Make Up,
Von Mondo,
Banda Bassotti,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Average White Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Byron Stingily,
Loose Ends,
Mo-Dettes,
Kool Moe Dee,
Soft Cell,
Mission of Burma,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Crash Course in Science,
MC5,
Faraquet,
Soft Machine,
The Leaves,
Leonard Cohen,
Pantaleimon,
The Kinks,
Hoover,
La Düsseldorf,
Can,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
UT,
Skaos,
Sparks,
Gil Scott Heron,
Amazonics,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Babytalk,
David Bowie,
48th St. Collective,
Jeff Mills,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Wire,
ABC,
Soul II Soul,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Robert Görl,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Evens,
The Buckinghams,
Joy Division,
Royal Trux,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Wake,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Depeche Mode,
Glambeats Corp.,
Judy Mowatt,
The Star Department,
Wings,
Alison Limerick,
Kenny Larkin,
Robert Hood,
Mad Mike,
The Stooges,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.