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 Singapore and from Hong Kong.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Siglo XX to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
ABBA,
Girls At Our Best!,
Anthony Braxton,
Cybotron,
The Gladiators,
Prince Buster,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Move,
Alison Limerick,
Ludus,
Ituana,
Surgeon,
Basic Channel,
Theoretical Girls,
A Certain Ratio,
Bob Dylan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Grey Daturas,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Harpers Bizarre,
Wings,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Big Daddy Kane,
Aloha Tigers,
The Moleskins,
Index,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bobby Byrd,
June Days,
Joensuu 1685,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Buzzcocks,
DJ Sneak,
Nirvana,
X-Ray Spex,
The Dead C,
U.S. Maple,
The Blackbyrds,
Suburban Knight,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Johnny Osbourne,
Drexciya,
Excepter,
The Wake,
Brass Construction,
Maleditus Sound,
Scan 7,
Ultimate Spinach,
Marmalade,
Skaos,
Donald Byrd,
The Selecter,
Scion,
Terry Callier,
Sam Rivers,
Icehouse,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.