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 Turkmenistan and from Madrid.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 X-Ray Spex to the techno 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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Young Rascals,
Organ,
Blancmange,
Bill Wells,
Deepchord,
Bobby Womack,
Neu!,
New York Dolls,
The Kinks,
Silicon Teens,
Terry Callier,
Stetsasonic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
OOIOO,
The Real Kids,
Minny Pops,
Erykah Badu,
Aaron Thompson,
The Doors,
Godley & Creme,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
L. Decosne,
The Walker Brothers,
Bauhaus,
Procol Harum,
Eric Dolphy,
Maleditus Sound,
Shoche,
Flamin' Groovies,
Tom Boy,
Minnie Riperton,
Das Ding,
The American Breed,
It's A Beautiful Day,
John Lydon,
FM Einheit,
Leonard Cohen,
Circle Jerks,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
David McCallum,
Laurel Aitken,
The Gun Club,
One Last Wish,
Nick Fraelich,
The Smiths,
David Axelrod,
Ice-T,
Amazonics,
Stereo Dub,
Trumans Water,
The Trojans,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Essential Logic,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Panda Bear,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mark Hollis,
Thompson Twins,
Pole,
Tubeway Army,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.