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 Zimbabwe and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 DNA to the techno 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monks 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
cv313,
Cheater Slicks,
Zero Boys,
Moebius,
Gang Starr,
Alton Ellis,
Pantaleimon,
Laurel Aitken,
The Velvet Underground,
The Dave Clark Five,
Frankie Knuckles,
Y Pants,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pussy Galore,
Avey Tare,
Peter & Gordon,
Black Sheep,
Groovy Waters,
Mandrill,
Bill Near,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Skatalites,
Metal Thangz,
Ituana,
Erasure,
Japan,
Patti Smith,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Birthday Party,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hoover,
JFA,
Neil Young,
Fad Gadget,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Prince Buster,
Harry Pussy,
The Walker Brothers,
Brass Construction,
8 Eyed Spy,
OOIOO,
The Seeds,
Camberwell Now,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kenny Larkin,
Yaz,
Guru Guru,
Barry Ungar,
Animal Collective,
Soft Cell,
Jacques Brel,
Alice Coltrane,
Kerrie Biddell,
Anakelly,
Scrapy,
Eden Ahbez,
the Bar-Kays,
Procol Harum,
Byron Stingily,
Bootsy Collins,
The Martian,
Bad Manners,
The Victims, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims.
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.