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 Equatorial Guinea and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Cairo.
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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Clear Light to the jazz 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 The Move. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cowsills,
China Crisis,
The Moleskins,
The Raincoats,
X-102,
X-Ray Spex,
Royal Trux,
The Associates,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
FM Einheit,
Bad Manners,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
T.S.O.L.,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
UT,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Peter and Kerry,
Piero Umiliani,
The Gun Club,
Vladislav Delay,
Alice Coltrane,
Negative Approach,
Lightning Bolt,
Maleditus Sound,
Scratch Acid,
Model 500,
Television,
Sällskapet,
cv313,
Little Man,
Cheater Slicks,
The Last Poets,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Au Pairs,
Josef K,
Yazoo,
Juan Atkins,
Chris & Cosey,
Neil Young,
The Blues Magoos,
R.M.O.,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
D'Angelo,
L. Decosne,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gang Gang Dance,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Stetsasonic,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Heaven 17,
The Smoke,
Godley & Creme,
Slave,
Faraquet,
Youth Brigade,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Electric Prunes,
Absolute Body Control,
John Lydon,
Oneida, Oneida, Oneida, Oneida.
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.