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 Sri Lanka and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 808 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 Cluster to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Human League. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba 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 spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Hasil Adkins,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Interpol,
The Dirtbombs,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Little Man,
Barrington Levy,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bronski Beat,
The Music Machine,
Heaven 17,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Faust,
The Fuzztones,
Slave,
Unrelated Segments,
The Electric Prunes,
Mandrill,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Blake Baxter,
The Pop Group,
Brand Nubian,
The Golliwogs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
In Retrospect,
Symarip,
Gong,
Bauhaus,
Deadbeat,
Dark Day,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gang Green,
Shuggie Otis,
The Gap Band,
Siglo XX,
KRS-One,
Swell Maps,
the Swans,
Rekid,
Sixth Finger,
The Kinks,
Hoover,
Bob Dylan,
Subhumans,
Fat Boys,
Yusef Lateef,
K-Klass,
Popol Vuh,
Godley & Creme,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
New Order,
Niagra,
The Invisible,
Kayak,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.