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 Uganda and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Panda Bear to the rock 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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & Metallica record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Althea and Donna,
Dorothy Ashby,
Drive Like Jehu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Excepter,
Ralphi Rosario,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Delon & Dalcan,
Con Funk Shun,
Suburban Knight,
Mantronix,
The Smiths,
World's Most,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Subhumans,
Derrick May,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Human League,
Wire,
Warren Ellis,
New Age Steppers,
John Coltrane,
Tears for Fears,
Desert Stars,
Gang Gang Dance,
Erykah Badu,
Radiohead,
Tim Buckley,
Scan 7,
Harmonia,
Kurtis Blow,
Mary Jane Girls,
Essential Logic,
Ronan,
Gong,
Angry Samoans,
Deepchord,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Techniques,
Todd Rundgren,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Wake,
Hoover,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Man Parrish,
Roxette,
Visage,
Eric Copeland,
Guru Guru,
The Index,
Traffic Nightmare,
Simply Red,
Cal Tjader,
Stockholm Monsters,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Gories,
Connie Case,
Liliput,
Marine Girls,
Vladislav Delay,
Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee.
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.