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 Ireland and from Salvador.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Lou Reed 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 Arcadia to the dance 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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Animal Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Rotary Connection,
Hot Snakes,
Soft Machine,
Davy DMX,
Technova,
Y Pants,
Aaron Thompson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Associates,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Evens,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Moleskins,
Delta 5,
Shoche,
Anakelly,
Pulsallama,
Zero Boys,
R.M.O.,
Faust,
Todd Rundgren,
Arab on Radar,
Soft Cell,
Amon Düül II,
Terry Callier,
Radio Birdman,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Harry Pussy,
Althea and Donna,
Patti Smith,
Animal Collective,
Clear Light,
Parry Music,
8 Eyed Spy,
Faraquet,
F. McDonald,
Kas Product,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lalann,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lou Christie,
Delon & Dalcan,
Isaac Hayes,
Jerry's Kids,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Chris Corsano,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Angels of Light,
Magazine,
Derrick May,
Pantytec,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
This Heat,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Skarface,
Sound Behaviour,
Marc Almond,
Main Source,
Flash Fearless,
La Düsseldorf,
The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed.
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.