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 Guatemala and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blackbyrds,
Howard Jones,
Barrington Levy,
Tres Demented,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nik Kershaw,
Graham Central Station,
Hardrive,
The Beau Brummels,
Q and Not U,
Basic Channel,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Delta 5,
Fluxion,
the Bar-Kays,
Fugazi,
The Flesh Eaters,
Deakin,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Wasted Youth,
Newcleus,
Jandek,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Black Dice,
Alton Ellis,
Talk Talk,
Jawbox,
Nick Fraelich,
In Retrospect,
Todd Rundgren,
Pylon,
World's Most,
Anthony Braxton,
Guru Guru,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Camberwell Now,
Marmalade,
Ultimate Spinach,
Scratch Acid,
Rufus Thomas,
Liliput,
The Stooges,
The Busters,
Radio Birdman,
Derrick Morgan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Altered Images,
The Slits,
The J.B.'s,
Aswad,
Motorama,
Hot Snakes,
Con Funk Shun,
Pantytec,
MC5,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Henry Cow,
Lalann,
The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes.
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.