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 Montenegro and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Skriet to the grime 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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Eddi Front,
Junior Murvin,
This Heat,
Fat Boys,
Chris & Cosey,
The Buckinghams,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Agitation Free,
Rod Modell,
FM Einheit,
Cecil Taylor,
Absolute Body Control,
the Bar-Kays,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Dead Boys,
Niagra,
Neu!,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minnie Riperton,
Cybotron,
Godley & Creme,
Nik Kershaw,
Saccharine Trust,
Parry Music,
Mission of Burma,
The Doors,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Letta Mbulu,
Average White Band,
Scan 7,
Surgeon,
Nas,
Inner City,
Section 25,
Fatback Band,
Bobby Womack,
Alice Coltrane,
The Wake,
Crime,
Ornette Coleman,
Grauzone,
The Fugs,
T.S.O.L.,
Sällskapet,
Pierre Henry,
Althea and Donna,
Smog,
Youth Brigade,
Duran Duran,
Wings,
DJ Style,
Bizarre Inc.,
Graham Central Station,
E-Dancer,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.