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 Guinea-Bissau and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 snare 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 The Happenings to the grunge 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Light Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Grandmaster Flash,
Piero Umiliani,
Deadbeat,
Lalann,
Organ,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ronnie Foster,
The Blackbyrds,
ABC,
Interpol,
Godley & Creme,
Lyres,
Marvin Gaye,
Maleditus Sound,
Cluster,
Gerry Rafferty,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ten City,
Simply Red,
Anakelly,
A Certain Ratio,
Fat Boys,
Gastr Del Sol,
Patti Smith,
The Skatalites,
Vainqueur,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moebius,
Joe Finger,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Gories,
Steve Hackett,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Brick,
Sarah Menescal,
Young Marble Giants,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lou Christie,
New Order,
Unwound,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Don Cherry,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Dead C,
Stereo Dub,
The Fugs,
Albert Ayler,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
F. McDonald,
The Remains,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Alice Coltrane,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Cymande,
Rhythm & Sound,
Donny Hathaway,
Moss Icon,
Angry Samoans,
Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily.
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.