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 Grenada 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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Dennis Brown to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Martian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Cybotron,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rapeman,
Sight & Sound,
China Crisis,
Sparks,
Fear,
Ituana,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Connie Case,
K-Klass,
One Last Wish,
Prince Buster,
Depeche Mode,
Gong,
Slave,
Letta Mbulu,
Massinfluence,
Bobby Womack,
Make Up,
The Standells,
Barbara Tucker,
Wire,
The Gories,
Mantronix,
Big Daddy Kane,
Talk Talk,
Hardrive,
Patti Smith,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Faraquet,
Rekid,
Pagans,
The Doors,
Kool Moe Dee,
David Axelrod,
Eric Copeland,
Godley & Creme,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
D'Angelo,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Subhumans,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
L. Decosne,
Young Marble Giants,
The Searchers,
Dual Sessions,
MDC,
Siglo XX,
These Immortal Souls,
Von Mondo,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gabor Szabo,
Laurel Aitken,
Davy DMX,
The Angels of Light,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Intrusion,
Kurtis Blow,
Lungfish,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.