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 Nigeria and from Spokane.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 guitar 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 Basic Channel to the funk 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Pylon,
Joensuu 1685,
The Grass Roots,
Aural Exciters,
Godley & Creme,
John Foxx,
Sex Pistols,
Ituana,
Flipper,
Bill Near,
Kurtis Blow,
Public Enemy,
Absolute Body Control,
Y Pants,
Colin Newman,
Theoretical Girls,
Ohio Players,
Tres Demented,
Guru Guru,
Metal Thangz,
Tropical Tobacco,
Susan Cadogan,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sonic Youth,
Joe Finger,
MDC,
Nation of Ulysses,
Mars,
Fad Gadget,
Black Bananas,
Massinfluence,
Tom Boy,
EPMD,
The Standells,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jacques Brel,
Sound Behaviour,
Depeche Mode,
A Certain Ratio,
Babytalk,
The Black Dice,
Fatback Band,
The Saints,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Brick,
Rapeman,
Kerri Chandler,
Robert Hood,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Freddie Wadling,
Mark Hollis,
Eurythmics,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Blues Magoos,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dark Day,
Main Source,
Pere Ubu,
Drexciya,
Man Parrish,
Cybotron,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.