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 Guinea and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sällskapet to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sam Rivers. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
In Retrospect,
the Bar-Kays,
Boz Scaggs,
Technova,
Infiniti,
The Happenings,
Y Pants,
Franke,
Eric Copeland,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Los Fastidios,
The Cramps,
Gong,
The Real Kids,
Q65,
Bang On A Can,
Ultra Naté,
Metal Thangz,
Dual Sessions,
The Slits,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Moby Grape,
The Busters,
Warren Ellis,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Average White Band,
Maleditus Sound,
John Lydon,
The Raincoats,
Sound Behaviour,
T. Rex,
The Gap Band,
Eve St. Jones,
Bill Near,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Charles Mingus,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scott Walker,
Joy Division,
Echospace,
Chris & Cosey,
Shuggie Otis,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pole,
The Blackbyrds,
The Mojo Men,
Groovy Waters,
U.S. Maple,
B.T. Express,
Gastr Del Sol,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Pretty Things,
Soft Machine,
Bluetip,
Darondo,
Derrick May,
Basic Channel,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
the Soft Cell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.