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 Mali and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 arpeggiator 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 Jerry's Kids to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
The Moody Blues,
Wally Richardson,
Mars,
Delta 5,
Talk Talk,
Negative Approach,
Ronan,
The Motions,
The Fugs,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Wake,
Peter and Kerry,
Darondo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kayak,
Con Funk Shun,
Roy Ayers,
The Pop Group,
David Axelrod,
Gabor Szabo,
Mary Jane Girls,
Basic Channel,
Minutemen,
Duran Duran,
48th St. Collective,
Monks,
Public Enemy,
Idris Muhammad,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Severed Heads,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nick Fraelich,
Swell Maps,
Quantec,
Groovy Waters,
Blancmange,
Stereo Dub,
Lightning Bolt,
Lakeside,
Scott Walker,
Supertramp,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Holt,
Sällskapet,
Camberwell Now,
Sarah Menescal,
The Names,
Loose Ends,
The Techniques,
Scientists,
Prince Buster,
Motorama,
Arthur Verocai,
Warsaw,
Kaleidoscope,
Pierre Henry,
Y Pants,
The Shadows of Knight,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.