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 Peru and from Johannesburg.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Panda Bear to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Offenders,
The Litter,
The Birthday Party,
Sarah Menescal,
Sex Pistols,
Agent Orange,
Model 500,
Joe Finger,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rod Modell,
The Mojo Men,
Fatback Band,
Sonic Youth,
Marine Girls,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The New Christs,
Tim Buckley,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Tres Demented,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rekid,
Adolescents,
Aswad,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Boredoms,
Surgeon,
The Buckinghams,
Tears for Fears,
Don Cherry,
Joensuu 1685,
New Order,
The Remains,
Ronan,
E-Dancer,
Kayak,
Essential Logic,
Japan,
Archie Shepp,
The Modern Lovers,
Royal Trux,
The Durutti Column,
Alison Limerick,
the Sonics,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Erykah Badu,
World's Most,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lou Christie,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
China Crisis,
Morten Harket,
Blake Baxter,
Ponytail,
The Five Americans,
Banda Bassotti,
The Golliwogs,
The Seeds,
Ohio Players,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.