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 Italy and from Taipei.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Flash Fearless to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Moebius,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cramps,
Rotary Connection,
Heaven 17,
Main Source,
D'Angelo,
LL Cool J,
Amon Düül,
Byron Stingily,
Stiv Bators,
A Certain Ratio,
Silicon Teens,
The Index,
Lee Hazlewood,
Public Image Ltd.,
Howard Jones,
Lyres,
The Black Dice,
The Fortunes,
Graham Central Station,
Alison Limerick,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Cowsills,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ultra Naté,
The Standells,
The Five Americans,
The Gun Club,
Siglo XX,
Mantronix,
Idris Muhammad,
Joe Smooth,
The Mojo Men,
Flash Fearless,
The Walker Brothers,
Eric Copeland,
Scientists,
Barclay James Harvest,
Nico,
Deakin,
Lungfish,
Absolute Body Control,
The Blues Magoos,
One Last Wish,
Avey Tare,
Rites of Spring,
Talk Talk,
Andrew Hill,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Niagra,
the Sonics,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mandrill,
The Pop Group,
Organ,
The Sound,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.