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 Australia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Associates to the electroclash 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 Heavy D & The Boyz. All the underground hits.
All The Kinks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Royal Trux,
Ultimate Spinach,
Fatback Band,
Duran Duran,
a-ha,
Curtis Mayfield,
Absolute Body Control,
Ronan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Offenders,
X-102,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Doors,
Vainqueur,
Pierre Henry,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Blossom Toes,
Tim Buckley,
Circle Jerks,
The Dave Clark Five,
EPMD,
the Association,
Clear Light,
AZ,
KRS-One,
Ituana,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Danielle Patucci,
Shuggie Otis,
Donald Byrd,
The Cowsills,
Hardrive,
Jawbox,
China Crisis,
Sarah Menescal,
Dead Boys,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
DJ Style,
The American Breed,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Shoche,
Technova,
Bizarre Inc.,
Matthew Halsall,
Eve St. Jones,
The Pop Group,
OOIOO,
Public Image Ltd.,
Easy Going,
Visage,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Smog,
FM Einheit,
Saccharine Trust,
Eli Mardock,
Maleditus Sound,
Eric Copeland,
PIL,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.