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 Azerbaijan and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mexico City.
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 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 Lalo Schifrin to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kings Of Tomorrow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Searchers,
Radiohead,
Sound Behaviour,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Simply Red,
KRS-One,
The Evens,
Flipper,
Massinfluence,
Black Flag,
A Certain Ratio,
Al Stewart,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ronan,
Ice-T,
Drexciya,
Lee Hazlewood,
Marvin Gaye,
Terrestrial Tones,
the Normal,
Ralphi Rosario,
Susan Cadogan,
Graham Central Station,
Angry Samoans,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dead Boys,
Max Romeo,
Jacob Miller,
The Birthday Party,
Easy Going,
The Index,
Nirvana,
Gang Green,
The Techniques,
Barbara Tucker,
China Crisis,
Dave Gahan,
Mary Jane Girls,
Index,
Marshall Jefferson,
Darondo,
Khruangbin,
Ten City,
The Standells,
the Human League,
New Order,
Silicon Teens,
John Holt,
the Soft Cell,
Sixth Finger,
These Immortal Souls,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Move,
Outsiders,
Chris Corsano,
Girls At Our Best!,
Joe Smooth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Severed Heads,
Fat Boys,
Suicide,
The Music Machine,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.