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 the UAE and from Jakarta.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Popol Vuh to the rap 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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slackers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
The Smoke,
Frankie Knuckles,
Terrestrial Tones,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Alarm Clocks,
Joey Negro,
Blossom Toes,
Man Parrish,
Isaac Hayes,
John Lydon,
The Gap Band,
Dark Day,
Magma,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sonic Youth,
Freddie Wadling,
Fear,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Velvet Underground,
Symarip,
Excepter,
Glenn Branca,
Max Romeo,
Lindisfarne,
The Mummies,
The Offenders,
K-Klass,
Althea and Donna,
Tommy Roe,
Idris Muhammad,
The Victims,
Sound Behaviour,
The Slits,
Bobby Sherman,
Scott Walker,
Bobby Womack,
Rotary Connection,
John Foxx,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Roy Ayers,
The Vogues,
Alphaville,
These Immortal Souls,
Second Layer,
Joensuu 1685,
Joy Division,
Gichy Dan,
The Modern Lovers,
Goldenarms,
The Techniques,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Basic Channel,
Duran Duran,
Black Sheep,
Panda Bear,
A Certain Ratio,
Ludus,
The Sonics,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Residents,
Quando Quango,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.