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 Egypt and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Holger Czukay 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 Maleditus Sound to the grime 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 Beasts of Bourbon. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boredoms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
Schoolly D,
Camouflage,
Clear Light,
Peter and Kerry,
Skaos,
Graham Central Station,
Deakin,
Rakim,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Count Five,
Josef K,
Von Mondo,
Pole,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Toasters,
The Offenders,
Section 25,
Sun Ra,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Jacob Miller,
Bush Tetras,
FM Einheit,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Kinks,
Roxy Music,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Circle Jerks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kas Product,
The Fall,
John Foxx,
The Angels of Light,
Lucky Dragons,
One Last Wish,
Kurtis Blow,
KRS-One,
Scott Walker,
Monolake,
Visage,
Freddie Wadling,
D'Angelo,
The Sound,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ultimate Spinach,
kango's stein massive,
the Fania All-Stars,
Yazoo,
Joe Smooth,
Matthew Halsall,
Darondo,
Ossler,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Tremeloes,
The Blackbyrds,
Warsaw,
Brothers Johnson,
Susan Cadogan,
John Coltrane,
Piero Umiliani,
Sun City Girls,
The Invisible,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.