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 Algeria and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Angels of Light to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Bill Wells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Khruangbin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Sonic Youth,
Surgeon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Technova,
Quadrant,
The Fugs,
Roxette,
Barbara Tucker,
The Golliwogs,
Vainqueur,
Amazonics,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Massinfluence,
E-Dancer,
Country Teasers,
The Evens,
FM Einheit,
Index,
Don Cherry,
Iggy Pop,
the Soft Cell,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Tremeloes,
Dead Boys,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Associates,
Gong,
Newcleus,
Rod Modell,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Banda Bassotti,
Mission of Burma,
The Detroit Cobras,
OOIOO,
Japan,
Cymande,
David Axelrod,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neu!,
Stetsasonic,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Schoolly D,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
PIL,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boz Scaggs,
Gregory Isaacs,
Yellowson,
Robert Wyatt,
Ice-T,
Joyce Sims,
Tres Demented,
Marc Almond,
The Fire Engines,
Grandmaster Flash,
Letta Mbulu,
Mantronix,
Barrington Levy,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.