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 Mexico and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Cheater Slicks to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
The Cure,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sonic Youth,
Aaron Thompson,
Tommy Roe,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pulsallama,
The Mummies,
Barry Ungar,
Agitation Free,
Newcleus,
Yusef Lateef,
Aloha Tigers,
Bootsy Collins,
Marvin Gaye,
Quando Quango,
Minny Pops,
Cameo,
Ronnie Foster,
Soulsonic Force,
Tres Demented,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hardrive,
Duran Duran,
Sun Ra,
Ludus,
Albert Ayler,
Delta 5,
Monolake,
Tom Boy,
Ponytail,
Ituana,
Curtis Mayfield,
Idris Muhammad,
Arab on Radar,
Lakeside,
Lower 48,
Neil Young,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Camouflage,
Crime,
The Count Five,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Anakelly,
The Skatalites,
Icehouse,
Cheater Slicks,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Amon Düül,
Toni Rubio,
Eric Copeland,
Black Pus,
Massinfluence,
Jeff Mills,
Skarface,
OOIOO,
Roy Ayers,
Marine Girls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.