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 Tonga and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Fad Gadget to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 John Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every D'Angelo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fort Wilson Riot record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
The American Breed,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Stooges,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Eric Copeland,
Mark Hollis,
Accadde A,
Chrome,
Hasil Adkins,
Joe Smooth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
ABBA,
OOIOO,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Oneida,
Donny Hathaway,
cv313,
Pulsallama,
David Axelrod,
Lebanon Hanover,
Intrusion,
Nick Fraelich,
The Selecter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Godley & Creme,
Jawbox,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Sisters of Mercy,
U.S. Maple,
The Young Rascals,
Boredoms,
This Heat,
Groovy Waters,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Misunderstood,
John Holt,
EPMD,
Sound Behaviour,
Eden Ahbez,
Babytalk,
ABC,
Skriet,
New Order,
Yaz,
Gil Scott Heron,
AZ,
The Vogues,
Interpol,
World's Most,
Wasted Youth,
Mr. Review,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Danielle Patucci,
The Gories,
10cc,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Crooked Eye,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.