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 Papua New Guinea and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 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 The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Dave Gahan,
The Techniques,
Pagans,
Masters at Work,
Sight & Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Suicide,
Japan,
The Busters,
Mars,
Avey Tare,
The Raincoats,
Joy Division,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lee Hazlewood,
Maurizio,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pere Ubu,
Gang of Four,
Sparks,
Hashim,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Man Eating Sloth,
Qualms,
In Retrospect,
Alton Ellis,
The Tremeloes,
The Cure,
Wally Richardson,
Deakin,
Curtis Mayfield,
Soul II Soul,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sound Behaviour,
The Searchers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Idris Muhammad,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Fat Boys,
Subhumans,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Fall,
Kenny Larkin,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gang Gang Dance,
Pharoah Sanders,
Livin' Joy,
Robert Hood,
U.S. Maple,
Urselle,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Leonard Cohen,
Funky Four + One,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Names,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.