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 Costa Rica and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Vladislav Delay to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Talk Talk,
a-ha,
Man Parrish,
ABBA,
The Black Dice,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Janne Schatter,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Loose Ends,
The Modern Lovers,
Glenn Branca,
The Flesh Eaters,
Michelle Simonal,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sonic Youth,
Bobby Byrd,
Gichy Dan,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Rapeman,
Masters at Work,
Main Source,
Barrington Levy,
Josef K,
Fatback Band,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Todd Terry,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ice-T,
JFA,
David Axelrod,
Monks,
The Pop Group,
Robert Hood,
Brand Nubian,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pantytec,
The Fall,
Mo-Dettes,
Archie Shepp,
Warren Ellis,
Crooked Eye,
Sarah Menescal,
Boz Scaggs,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pussy Galore,
Sällskapet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Grauzone,
The Searchers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Nils Olav,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ultravox,
Agent Orange,
Wolf Eyes,
Jerry's Kids,
Scrapy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Magma,
Gong, Gong, Gong, Gong.
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.