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 Taiwan and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 güiro 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 Vainqueur to the grime 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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radio Birdman,
Crispy Ambulance,
Roy Ayers,
Ultravox,
Aloha Tigers,
Accadde A,
John Lydon,
Mars,
Faraquet,
LL Cool J,
Sparks,
The Gun Club,
The Birthday Party,
Shuggie Otis,
Electric Prunes,
Joyce Sims,
Gang of Four,
New York Dolls,
Camberwell Now,
Hoover,
The Walker Brothers,
Main Source,
Pagans,
Kayak,
Yaz,
Shoche,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sound Behaviour,
Faust,
Scrapy,
Henry Cow,
Matthew Halsall,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kurtis Blow,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Blackbyrds,
The Count Five,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pere Ubu,
Newcleus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Anakelly,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Moebius,
Ken Boothe,
Black Flag,
Mad Mike,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Radiohead,
The Doobie Brothers,
Supertramp,
The Techniques,
Black Pus,
Bill Near,
Mark Hollis,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
In Retrospect,
Pulsallama,
Cluster,
Funky Four + One,
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow.
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.