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 Ukraine 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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Rufus Thomas to the disco 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Selector Dub Narcotic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Neon Judgement,
Anthony Braxton,
Lee Hazlewood,
Susan Cadogan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Quantec,
Hardrive,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nico,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lightning Bolt,
U.S. Maple,
Clear Light,
The Doobie Brothers,
Joensuu 1685,
Sarah Menescal,
The Alarm Clocks,
Hasil Adkins,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
David Bowie,
Public Enemy,
Ohio Players,
The Barracudas,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Zero Boys,
Suicide,
Kayak,
Chris Corsano,
Whodini,
Ultravox,
the Association,
The Kinks,
World's Most,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Beau Brummels,
Quadrant,
Basic Channel,
Albert Ayler,
Rekid,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Charles Mingus,
Shuggie Otis,
Be Bop Deluxe,
F. McDonald,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Freddie Wadling,
Laurel Aitken,
Michelle Simonal,
Soft Machine,
Johnny Clarke,
The Blues Magoos,
Make Up,
Pylon,
The Wake,
Byron Stingily,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Severed Heads,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.