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 Morocco and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba 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 Archie Shepp to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Qualms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
The Gories,
Roger Hodgson,
the Swans,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ronnie Foster,
The Index,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pantytec,
Joensuu 1685,
Kerri Chandler,
Lakeside,
Kurtis Blow,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Desert Stars,
New Order,
Scrapy,
Bill Wells,
The Invisible,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gang of Four,
Jesper Dahlback,
Depeche Mode,
Sam Rivers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Essential Logic,
Eric Copeland,
The New Christs,
The Martian,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Busters,
Lucky Dragons,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Kaleidoscope,
Minnie Riperton,
Flash Fearless,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Graham Central Station,
Black Moon,
Barclay James Harvest,
Parry Music,
Audionom,
Dave Gahan,
Moby Grape,
Joey Negro,
The Velvet Underground,
The Count Five,
Piero Umiliani,
L. Decosne,
Bad Manners,
John Holt,
Duran Duran,
La Düsseldorf,
Lightning Bolt,
Gang Green,
The Electric Prunes,
The Happenings,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Brand Nubian,
Quando Quango,
Rosa Yemen,
Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth.
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.