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 United Kingdom and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Madrid.
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 808 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 Robert Hood to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quando Quango record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Roy Ayers,
the Association,
Ultra Naté,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sonic Youth,
Alphaville,
Slick Rick,
Silicon Teens,
Toni Rubio,
Joe Finger,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Monks,
Howard Jones,
These Immortal Souls,
kango's stein massive,
Depeche Mode,
the Swans,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Mr. Review,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
MC5,
the Bar-Kays,
Agitation Free,
Basic Channel,
Amon Düül II,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ice-T,
Surgeon,
Alice Coltrane,
Lungfish,
Henry Cow,
Parry Music,
Albert Ayler,
Bizarre Inc.,
Theoretical Girls,
Todd Terry,
Harpers Bizarre,
Interpol,
Echospace,
Absolute Body Control,
Lou Reed,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Normal,
Sarah Menescal,
Anthony Braxton,
Rod Modell,
Fad Gadget,
Scrapy,
Glenn Branca,
Public Image Ltd.,
X-101,
Black Moon,
Magma,
Youth Brigade,
Gabor Szabo,
Ronan,
Arab on Radar,
Sex Pistols,
Lakeside,
Siglo XX,
Robert Wyatt,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
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.