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 Marshall Islands and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Hong Kong.
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 rhodes 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 Ituana to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Funky Four + One,
Marc Almond,
Chris & Cosey,
Index,
Kerri Chandler,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gong,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sparks,
X-101,
10cc,
Stockholm Monsters,
Qualms,
La Düsseldorf,
Ituana,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Schoolly D,
Wings,
Aloha Tigers,
MDC,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Absolute Body Control,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Oneida,
Dawn Penn,
Janne Schatter,
Bill Wells,
Livin' Joy,
Sound Behaviour,
Sarah Menescal,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kurtis Blow,
The Blackbyrds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Teasers,
The Toasters,
Eric Copeland,
Icehouse,
The Slits,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
X-Ray Spex,
Isaac Hayes,
Stiv Bators,
Nils Olav,
The New Christs,
Ten City,
Black Sheep,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dual Sessions,
Hot Snakes,
Camberwell Now,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Human League,
Derrick Morgan,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.