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 Honduras and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 808 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 MDC to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Flesh Eaters. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Loose Ends record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Japan,
Barrington Levy,
Glenn Branca,
Alison Limerick,
Scrapy,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Gories,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Skaos,
Radiopuhelimet,
Alice Coltrane,
Ronnie Foster,
Sixth Finger,
Vainqueur,
Kayak,
Thompson Twins,
Trumans Water,
MC5,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Tremeloes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Litter,
Hardrive,
Echospace,
the Human League,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
This Heat,
Alphaville,
Agitation Free,
Roger Hodgson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Theoretical Girls,
Eyeless In Gaza,
cv313,
Wings,
Camberwell Now,
The Kinks,
Archie Shepp,
Gichy Dan,
The Electric Prunes,
Magma,
Sonic Youth,
Soul II Soul,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Blackbyrds,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ornette Coleman,
Ultra Naté,
The Trojans,
Suburban Knight,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Donny Hathaway,
Soul Sonic Force,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.