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 Botswana and from Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Cairo.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joey Negro record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
Loose Ends,
The Angels of Light,
Alphaville,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Parry Music,
Gang of Four,
Sam Rivers,
The Skatalites,
Mark Hollis,
Matthew Bourne,
Inner City,
Rotary Connection,
The Moleskins,
Radiohead,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jandek,
Pantytec,
The Gladiators,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Red Krayola,
Icehouse,
Nas,
Sandy B,
Pierre Henry,
Sexual Harrassment,
Buzzcocks,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bad Manners,
The Busters,
8 Eyed Spy,
Suicide,
Ohio Players,
Hashim,
Johnny Clarke,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cal Tjader,
Arcadia,
Blancmange,
Mandrill,
Robert Wyatt,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Litter,
The Martian,
Rapeman,
Black Moon,
The Standells,
K-Klass,
John Holt,
The Sound,
Archie Shepp,
MC5,
48th St. Collective,
Skriet,
The Detroit Cobras,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gang Green,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.