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 El Salvador and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Dave Gahan to the rock 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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Make Up record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Velvet Underground,
Ralphi Rosario,
China Crisis,
Sister Nancy,
Desert Stars,
Marine Girls,
The Searchers,
The Grass Roots,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Fire Engines,
Fugazi,
Loose Ends,
Janne Schatter,
Bootsy Collins,
Crime,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
U.S. Maple,
Das Ding,
Symarip,
Lalann,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Flamin' Groovies,
Mandrill,
Scratch Acid,
Sonic Youth,
The Smoke,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Slackers,
Tim Buckley,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DJ Sneak,
The Trojans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
CMW,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Brothers Johnson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Girls At Our Best!,
Shoche,
Mo-Dettes,
The Mummies,
The Fugs,
Reuben Wilson,
DNA,
Gabor Szabo,
Little Man,
Roger Hodgson,
Yazoo,
the Fania All-Stars,
Silicon Teens,
Procol Harum,
Index,
Steve Hackett,
Bluetip,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.