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 Senegal and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Milan.
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 snare 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 Seeds to the dance 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 Country Teasers. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Basic Channel,
Agitation Free,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sound Behaviour,
the Association,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Avey Tare,
The Zeros,
Suicide,
Bobby Byrd,
Pantytec,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Skaos,
Amazonics,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Suburban Knight,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Steve Hackett,
Pantaleimon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Beau Brummels,
Laurel Aitken,
Can,
Mary Jane Girls,
Infiniti,
Sarah Menescal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Chrome,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gang Gang Dance,
These Immortal Souls,
48th St. Collective,
Colin Newman,
Nik Kershaw,
Duran Duran,
The Gun Club,
Josef K,
Little Man,
Connie Case,
Rekid,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Massinfluence,
The Music Machine,
Youth Brigade,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Standells,
Roxette,
Qualms,
David Axelrod,
Mission of Burma,
Kenny Larkin,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bluetip,
Maleditus Sound,
The Fire Engines,
Essential Logic,
L. Decosne,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bad Manners,
Soul II Soul,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Susan Cadogan,
Con Funk Shun,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.