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 Tanzania and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Robert Palmer 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 Jandek to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All K-Klass tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
Reuben Wilson,
Porter Ricks,
Vainqueur,
Livin' Joy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Anthony Braxton,
The Kinks,
The Count Five,
Little Man,
Godley & Creme,
The Buckinghams,
Grandmaster Flash,
Intrusion,
H. Thieme,
Bronski Beat,
Soft Cell,
The Young Rascals,
Pantaleimon,
Peter & Gordon,
Mark Hollis,
Ornette Coleman,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Marine Girls,
Moss Icon,
The Fuzztones,
Half Japanese,
Country Joe & The Fish,
In Retrospect,
The United States of America,
D'Angelo,
DJ Style,
Ronan,
The Detroit Cobras,
Tropical Tobacco,
Von Mondo,
Kerrie Biddell,
the Swans,
Rotary Connection,
Mad Mike,
Sandy B,
Sam Rivers,
Amazonics,
The Leaves,
The Mojo Men,
Erykah Badu,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Crispian St. Peters,
Anakelly,
The Smoke,
Todd Terry,
The Star Department,
Icehouse,
Public Enemy,
Unrelated Segments,
a-ha,
Rod Modell,
The Remains,
Terrestrial Tones,
Thompson Twins,
David Axelrod,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.