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 Kenya and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 The Fall to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All The Men They Couldn't Hang tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pulsallama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spandau Ballet,
The Gap Band,
UT,
The Wake,
Boz Scaggs,
Nation of Ulysses,
FM Einheit,
The Happenings,
Barbara Tucker,
a-ha,
Scientists,
Nils Olav,
Procol Harum,
Kaleidoscope,
Rufus Thomas,
Camouflage,
the Normal,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bob Dylan,
Y Pants,
Amon Düül,
Jimmy McGriff,
the Bar-Kays,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tomorrow,
10cc,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Iggy Pop,
The Gladiators,
Warren Ellis,
Chris Corsano,
The American Breed,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Invisible,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Heaven 17,
Underground Resistance,
The Moody Blues,
Guru Guru,
Whodini,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
James White and The Blacks,
Swell Maps,
The Black Dice,
Popol Vuh,
Negative Approach,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Smog,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Cluster,
Glenn Branca,
Anthony Braxton,
Moebius,
Severed Heads,
Basic Channel,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Music Machine,
Sandy B,
Carl Craig,
Prince Buster,
Ken Boothe,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Sonics,
Monks, Monks, Monks, Monks.
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.