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 Russia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Germs to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Model 500,
Prince Buster,
Sixth Finger,
Pole,
Marine Girls,
The Motions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rosa Yemen,
Slick Rick,
John Coltrane,
Big Daddy Kane,
Girls At Our Best!,
The United States of America,
Bauhaus,
Jawbox,
Bluetip,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
It's A Beautiful Day,
AZ,
Kenny Larkin,
Lalann,
Wire,
The Grass Roots,
Negative Approach,
Aloha Tigers,
Dark Day,
Ronan,
Soft Cell,
Echospace,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Alice Coltrane,
Joe Finger,
Marc Almond,
Niagra,
Subhumans,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eric Dolphy,
Half Japanese,
EPMD,
Blancmange,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Masters at Work,
Radio Birdman,
Country Joe & The Fish,
MDC,
China Crisis,
Pagans,
The Smiths,
The Shadows of Knight,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bang On A Can,
Terrestrial Tones,
Easy Going,
Glambeats Corp.,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pulsallama,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.