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 Malaysia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 mellotron 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 The Selecter to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Smoke. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suicide,
Joensuu 1685,
The Gories,
F. McDonald,
Colin Newman,
DJ Style,
Bad Manners,
Matthew Bourne,
Quadrant,
Henry Cow,
Zero Boys,
Gang of Four,
Junior Murvin,
The Mighty Diamonds,
EPMD,
Yaz,
Gang Gang Dance,
Chrome,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Soft Machine,
Y Pants,
the Human League,
The Young Rascals,
Roger Hodgson,
Black Sheep,
Bobby Byrd,
Dual Sessions,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
48th St. Collective,
Blossom Toes,
Drexciya,
Jeff Mills,
Toni Rubio,
The Happenings,
Simply Red,
The Dirtbombs,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Monolake,
The Blues Magoos,
Amon Düül,
U.S. Maple,
Kevin Saunderson,
Severed Heads,
Spoonie Gee,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Move,
Boredoms,
The Slackers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Faraquet,
Oneida,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Tubeway Army,
Darondo,
Pantytec,
This Heat,
Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox.
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.