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 Equatorial Guinea and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Flipper to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Matthew Halsall,
Agent Orange,
Aaron Thompson,
The Remains,
John Coltrane,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Country Teasers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Godley & Creme,
The Sonics,
ABC,
MDC,
AZ,
cv313,
Freddie Wadling,
Vainqueur,
Skaos,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lebanon Hanover,
Joy Division,
Lakeside,
Can,
Eve St. Jones,
the Sonics,
JFA,
OOIOO,
10cc,
The Gladiators,
The Associates,
Swans,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Star Department,
Young Marble Giants,
David Bowie,
The Evens,
Avey Tare,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pagans,
Soft Machine,
MC5,
Scratch Acid,
Echospace,
Kayak,
Roger Hodgson,
Thee Headcoats,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Inner City,
Don Cherry,
June of 44,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ultra Naté,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Grass Roots,
Siglo XX,
Eric Dolphy,
Cymande,
Bob Dylan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kaleidoscope,
Duran Duran,
Morten Harket,
Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon.
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.