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 Japan and from Seoul.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kas Product to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid 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 an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Terry Callier,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Toasters,
Siglo XX,
Lalo Schifrin,
Hardrive,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Human League,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Deadbeat,
Aural Exciters,
Fear,
Unrelated Segments,
Max Romeo,
Marmalade,
Main Source,
Fela Kuti,
B.T. Express,
Reagan Youth,
Television Personalities,
Ultra Naté,
The Velvet Underground,
Icehouse,
Flash Fearless,
Amon Düül,
Severed Heads,
Second Layer,
Derrick Morgan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Index,
Bobby Womack,
Eli Mardock,
Sex Pistols,
The Divine Comedy,
The Saints,
the Soft Cell,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
the Human League,
Section 25,
Nils Olav,
FM Einheit,
Monolake,
The Grass Roots,
Nick Fraelich,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Delta 5,
The Dead C,
K-Klass,
Malaria!,
PIL,
Blancmange,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gang Starr,
The Angels of Light,
Soft Machine,
Barrington Levy,
Lyres,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.