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 Zambia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 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 Grey Daturas to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
the Sonics,
Kenny Larkin,
Blossom Toes,
Moss Icon,
The Last Poets,
Desert Stars,
Metal Thangz,
Monolake,
8 Eyed Spy,
Grauzone,
Lalo Schifrin,
Oneida,
Marcia Griffiths,
Nation of Ulysses,
Joe Smooth,
Dawn Penn,
Rites of Spring,
La Düsseldorf,
Q65,
FM Einheit,
The Young Rascals,
Urselle,
Jeff Mills,
Joe Finger,
Radiopuhelimet,
Livin' Joy,
The Invisible,
In Retrospect,
Vainqueur,
Laurel Aitken,
The Misunderstood,
Procol Harum,
Au Pairs,
Newcleus,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bronski Beat,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Siglo XX,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
China Crisis,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
48th St. Collective,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Symarip,
Sun Ra,
Nik Kershaw,
The Modern Lovers,
The Vogues,
Gang Starr,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Prince Buster,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
X-Ray Spex,
Essential Logic,
Neil Young,
LL Cool J,
Nils Olav,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Make Up,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants.
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.