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 Iraq and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Lou Reed 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo to the jazz 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Faraquet,
Sexual Harrassment,
Hashim,
The Martian,
Altered Images,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Alphaville,
Vainqueur,
Jandek,
The Litter,
Khruangbin,
Todd Terry,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mission of Burma,
Sparks,
Lindisfarne,
Chrome,
Dennis Brown,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bauhaus,
Massinfluence,
The Wake,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bizarre Inc.,
Junior Murvin,
Roy Ayers,
Shoche,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Cramps,
Surgeon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Theoretical Girls,
Graham Central Station,
Drive Like Jehu,
Circle Jerks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Neu!,
E-Dancer,
Sight & Sound,
Deepchord,
Can,
Kerri Chandler,
Blake Baxter,
Laurel Aitken,
Henry Cow,
Second Layer,
John Cale,
Man Eating Sloth,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Erasure,
Ohio Players,
Technova,
James White and The Blacks,
Joe Smooth,
The Smiths,
48th St. Collective,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Deakin, Deakin, Deakin, Deakin.
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.