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 Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 John Cale to the electroclash 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magazine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Michelle Simonal,
Marshall Jefferson,
Skaos,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sight & Sound,
Roxy Music,
The Wake,
Susan Cadogan,
Boz Scaggs,
Quando Quango,
Delta 5,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jeff Mills,
Gong,
Harmonia,
Television,
Stiv Bators,
Funky Four + One,
PIL,
Trumans Water,
Hoover,
Bronski Beat,
Young Marble Giants,
Schoolly D,
Quadrant,
Johnny Osbourne,
Skriet,
Ronan,
Essential Logic,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Matthew Bourne,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Star Department,
One Last Wish,
Scrapy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Motions,
The Gladiators,
Loose Ends,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
John Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Human League,
John Lydon,
MC5,
China Crisis,
Gichy Dan,
Joe Finger,
Khruangbin,
Glambeats Corp.,
Brand Nubian,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jacques Brel,
Bang On A Can,
John Holt,
The Blues Magoos,
Newcleus,
The Cramps,
Josef K,
Alice Coltrane,
Q65, Q65, Q65, Q65.
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.