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 China and from Hong Kong.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Robert Palmer 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 Smoke to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Sneak 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Skriet,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Smog,
Minor Threat,
Ludus,
The Trojans,
Blake Baxter,
JFA,
The Smoke,
New Age Steppers,
Arcadia,
Jacques Brel,
Dawn Penn,
Television,
8 Eyed Spy,
Niagra,
Nick Fraelich,
Soulsonic Force,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sparks,
John Holt,
Von Mondo,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Wire,
Blossom Toes,
Metal Thangz,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Arthur Verocai,
Masters at Work,
Livin' Joy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Dead C,
Cybotron,
The Offenders,
Tres Demented,
Alison Limerick,
Panda Bear,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
New Order,
Essential Logic,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Urselle,
Loose Ends,
Tim Buckley,
DNA,
The Fall,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Fortunes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Zeros,
Sexual Harrassment,
Saccharine Trust,
Moby Grape,
the Normal,
World's Most,
The Vogues,
Eve St. Jones,
PIL,
Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke.
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.