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 Lesotho and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Delta 5 to the disco 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
Essential Logic,
Deepchord,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Frankie Knuckles,
the Normal,
The Moleskins,
Tommy Roe,
The Gories,
Hoover,
Sugar Minott,
the Association,
Mark Hollis,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Marmalade,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Monochrome Set,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Arcadia,
Jesper Dahlback,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scrapy,
Stockholm Monsters,
One Last Wish,
Sonic Youth,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ultra Naté,
Panda Bear,
Matthew Halsall,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Mission of Burma,
Jandek,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Minnie Riperton,
Leonard Cohen,
Carl Craig,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Funky Four + One,
Gil Scott Heron,
the Slits,
The Gun Club,
Duran Duran,
The Blackbyrds,
Excepter,
Joy Division,
Main Source,
Vainqueur,
Nick Fraelich,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nik Kershaw,
Isaac Hayes,
Absolute Body Control,
Neil Young,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.