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 Georgia and from Taipei.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 organ 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 Moebius to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Donny Hathaway,
the Swans,
The Fuzztones,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marine Girls,
Scion,
Jeff Mills,
Rosa Yemen,
Infiniti,
Alison Limerick,
Glenn Branca,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Mantronix,
These Immortal Souls,
Howard Jones,
New Order,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Gap Band,
Tommy Roe,
Derrick Morgan,
Public Enemy,
Brothers Johnson,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Alice Coltrane,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Unrelated Segments,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Toni Rubio,
Minor Threat,
Thee Headcoats,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Adolescents,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Japan,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lou Christie,
Rotary Connection,
Kas Product,
Peter and Kerry,
The Gun Club,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ponytail,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Minnie Riperton,
Altered Images,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
FM Einheit,
Hoover,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Golliwogs,
The Motions,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pantytec,
ABBA,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crime,
Stetsasonic,
Scott Walker,
Q and Not U,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry 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.