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 Venezuela and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Unwound to the rap 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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Ralphi Rosario tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Saccharine Trust,
Letta Mbulu,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
R.M.O.,
Pussy Galore,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Peter and Kerry,
Swans,
The Human League,
Black Moon,
A Certain Ratio,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Gap Band,
Minor Threat,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sällskapet,
Wasted Youth,
Toni Rubio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Talk Talk,
Pylon,
The Misunderstood,
Scrapy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Agent Orange,
Swell Maps,
Black Flag,
Tears for Fears,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
X-Ray Spex,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bill Near,
Flamin' Groovies,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Circle Jerks,
Lucky Dragons,
Blake Baxter,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Don Cherry,
Pantaleimon,
The Doors,
The Gories,
Jimmy McGriff,
Harpers Bizarre,
Mark Hollis,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Roy Ayers,
Yusef Lateef,
Severed Heads,
Thompson Twins,
Kerri Chandler,
Ituana,
Drive Like Jehu,
Leonard Cohen,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.