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 Pakistan and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 K-Klass to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Fall. All the underground hits.
All Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
48th St. Collective,
DNA,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fela Kuti,
Chris Corsano,
Bush Tetras,
The Gun Club,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sällskapet,
Duran Duran,
The Dirtbombs,
Yellowson,
Whodini,
The Skatalites,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Slackers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Alton Ellis,
Davy DMX,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Angels of Light,
The Index,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eli Mardock,
Godley & Creme,
Joyce Sims,
Camberwell Now,
Janne Schatter,
Average White Band,
Theoretical Girls,
Maurizio,
Max Romeo,
Negative Approach,
Alphaville,
David McCallum,
Altered Images,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fat Boys,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lungfish,
Sandy B,
Tom Boy,
Groovy Waters,
Bill Wells,
Massinfluence,
Lindisfarne,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Marmalade,
Basic Channel,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Standells,
A Certain Ratio,
Moss Icon,
X-101,
The J.B.'s,
Hashim,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.