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 Albania and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Average White Band to the funk 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Maurizio,
Flipper,
Jandek,
Essential Logic,
Alison Limerick,
Theoretical Girls,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drive Like Jehu,
Andrew Hill,
Lucky Dragons,
Saccharine Trust,
ABBA,
10cc,
Ossler,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Neon Judgement,
T. Rex,
Mantronix,
Loose Ends,
Pylon,
Sixth Finger,
Technova,
The Misunderstood,
Michelle Simonal,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Aural Exciters,
Little Man,
Gang Gang Dance,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bad Manners,
Matthew Bourne,
Sight & Sound,
The Divine Comedy,
The Motions,
Wasted Youth,
Black Bananas,
Skriet,
Davy DMX,
Kevin Saunderson,
UT,
Nation of Ulysses,
Scion,
Brass Construction,
Reuben Wilson,
Neil Young,
The Kinks,
Cheater Slicks,
The Buckinghams,
Skaos,
Thompson Twins,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Surgeon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
JFA,
Anthony Braxton,
Ralphi Rosario,
Rites of Spring,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.