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 Uzbekistan and from Bologna.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sällskapet to the grime 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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Toni Rubio,
Nation of Ulysses,
Severed Heads,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nirvana,
Graham Central Station,
Sandy B,
Half Japanese,
La Düsseldorf,
Ituana,
The Fall,
Dead Boys,
Bobby Sherman,
the Human League,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Angry Samoans,
The Move,
New Order,
New York Dolls,
Young Marble Giants,
Panda Bear,
The Raincoats,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eurythmics,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Isaac Hayes,
Maleditus Sound,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Joy Division,
Drexciya,
FM Einheit,
Stetsasonic,
Essential Logic,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pole,
10cc,
Sam Rivers,
Reagan Youth,
EPMD,
Pantytec,
The United States of America,
Gabor Szabo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kerrie Biddell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Saints,
Warsaw,
Surgeon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Funky Four + One,
Eve St. Jones,
Minny Pops,
Hashim,
Bauhaus,
Big Daddy Kane,
Suicide,
Godley & Creme,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
AZ,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Walker Brothers,
B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express.
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.