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 Korea South and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Chris & Cosey to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-102,
Second Layer,
Sound Behaviour,
The Cowsills,
MC5,
Radiohead,
The Moody Blues,
Johnny Clarke,
Jeff Mills,
Grandmaster Flash,
Minor Threat,
Rekid,
Morten Harket,
Essential Logic,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
CMW,
Traffic Nightmare,
D'Angelo,
Carl Craig,
The Smiths,
Ornette Coleman,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bobby Sherman,
Motorama,
Crispian St. Peters,
kango's stein massive,
The Techniques,
Eric Copeland,
The Pop Group,
Visage,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Agitation Free,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Cramps,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Chrome,
The Golliwogs,
The Doors,
Fela Kuti,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Black Pus,
Duran Duran,
The Martian,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Selecter,
L. Decosne,
Gang Green,
Newcleus,
Electric Prunes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sällskapet,
Rosa Yemen,
AZ,
Michelle Simonal,
Excepter,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.