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 Palau and from Manchester.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Groovy Waters to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Litter. All the underground hits.
All Deakin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Real Kids,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dave Gahan,
The Techniques,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Joey Negro,
Monks,
Main Source,
Curtis Mayfield,
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Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mission of Burma,
Panda Bear,
Eric Dolphy,
The Golliwogs,
Reuben Wilson,
The Birthday Party,
Model 500,
Malaria!,
Magazine,
Masters at Work,
Stockholm Monsters,
In Retrospect,
Kas Product,
Black Bananas,
Grey Daturas,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
E-Dancer,
Bob Dylan,
Idris Muhammad,
The Smoke,
Jandek,
Yazoo,
Chris Corsano,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sonny Sharrock,
Minnie Riperton,
Byron Stingily,
Eurythmics,
Amazonics,
Lou Reed,
Scion,
David McCallum,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minny Pops,
Fad Gadget,
Yaz,
Bronski Beat,
Howard Jones,
The Gun Club,
Crispy Ambulance,
Nation of Ulysses,
Toni Rubio,
Jerry's Kids,
R.M.O.,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.