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 Lesotho and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 rhodes 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 Drexciya to the rap 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DNA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slits,
Grey Daturas,
Unrelated Segments,
Joe Finger,
Supertramp,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dawn Penn,
Al Stewart,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Hardrive,
Schoolly D,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Cal Tjader,
8 Eyed Spy,
Yazoo,
Nirvana,
the Soft Cell,
Eurythmics,
Quando Quango,
Fat Boys,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Donald Byrd,
Blake Baxter,
Michelle Simonal,
June Days,
Davy DMX,
Can,
Anthony Braxton,
Public Enemy,
Main Source,
The Leaves,
Bronski Beat,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
MC5,
DJ Style,
Silicon Teens,
Theoretical Girls,
Sonic Youth,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sarah Menescal,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Wire,
The Standells,
Adolescents,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jeff Mills,
Lou Christie,
Clear Light,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Aaron Thompson,
Danielle Patucci,
Kurtis Blow,
FM Einheit,
Chrome,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Yaz,
Ultravox,
Pagans,
Kerrie Biddell,
U.S. Maple,
Delta 5,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.