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 Equatorial Guinea and from Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 James White and The Blacks to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Lou Reed & Metallica. All the underground hits.
All The Last Poets tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James White and The Blacks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
Harmonia,
Clear Light,
Sällskapet,
The Velvet Underground,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rites of Spring,
Simply Red,
Monks,
Janne Schatter,
Royal Trux,
Gang Starr,
Newcleus,
The Pop Group,
Television,
Sound Behaviour,
Rapeman,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kaleidoscope,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rotary Connection,
Animal Collective,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Barbara Tucker,
The Stooges,
Lyres,
Symarip,
Funkadelic,
The Monochrome Set,
Franke,
Trumans Water,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Qualms,
Amon Düül II,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Soft Cell,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Radio Birdman,
Talk Talk,
Excepter,
LL Cool J,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Techniques,
Hashim,
Moebius,
Pet Shop Boys,
Aaron Thompson,
Crooked Eye,
Godley & Creme,
Cecil Taylor,
The Grass Roots,
Matthew Halsall,
The Associates,
UT,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Nico,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.