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 Saudi Arabia and from Edmonton.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 organ 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 Sixth Finger to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kenny Larkin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Colin Newman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minnie Riperton,
Grandmaster Flash,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rosa Yemen,
Kool Moe Dee,
FM Einheit,
Stiv Bators,
Scientists,
Stereo Dub,
Erykah Badu,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kenny Larkin,
EPMD,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Standells,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Janne Schatter,
New Age Steppers,
Dennis Brown,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Cheater Slicks,
Niagra,
Altered Images,
The Doors,
The Pop Group,
Stetsasonic,
Nick Fraelich,
June of 44,
Avey Tare,
The Beau Brummels,
Rakim,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rekid,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
JFA,
Bad Manners,
The Count Five,
Groovy Waters,
Fort Wilson Riot,
H. Thieme,
Derrick May,
Sarah Menescal,
John Foxx,
Sparks,
Soulsonic Force,
Unrelated Segments,
The Leaves,
Toni Rubio,
Q and Not U,
The Names,
Technova,
The Five Americans,
Gregory Isaacs,
MC5,
CMW,
Alphaville,
The Associates,
Carl Craig,
Gang Green,
Panda Bear,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Faust, Faust, Faust, Faust.
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.