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 Cape Verde and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 clarinet 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Evens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bush Tetras,
The Residents,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Skarface,
Silicon Teens,
Theoretical Girls,
These Immortal Souls,
Metal Thangz,
Rufus Thomas,
The Invisible,
Cluster,
X-102,
Max Romeo,
Japan,
Quadrant,
Symarip,
Chris Corsano,
Mo-Dettes,
the Swans,
PIL,
Electric Prunes,
The Alarm Clocks,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jandek,
Hashim,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gil Scott Heron,
Amon Düül II,
Mark Hollis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
DNA,
Parry Music,
John Cale,
The Martian,
Kool Moe Dee,
Minutemen,
Bill Wells,
Cybotron,
The J.B.'s,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jeff Mills,
Ohio Players,
The Young Rascals,
Morten Harket,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Buckinghams,
Harry Pussy,
Agent Orange,
Index,
La Düsseldorf,
Yusef Lateef,
Grauzone,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Cowsills,
Jesper Dahlback,
Nation of Ulysses,
Oblivians,
Tres Demented,
the Slits,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.