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 Grenada and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 cv313 to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Offenders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
DJ Sneak,
Wings,
Quantec,
Talk Talk,
Max Romeo,
Derrick Morgan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Excepter,
Niagra,
Can,
Zapp,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Swans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Minor Threat,
Junior Murvin,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Isaac Hayes,
The Skatalites,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Massinfluence,
Sugar Minott,
Charles Mingus,
Sixth Finger,
Barry Ungar,
The Martian,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
China Crisis,
Khruangbin,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Kool Moe Dee,
PIL,
Ultimate Spinach,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mad Mike,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Invisible,
Rakim,
KRS-One,
Qualms,
Youth Brigade,
The J.B.'s,
Wolf Eyes,
Matthew Halsall,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Basic Channel,
Andrew Hill,
Robert Wyatt,
Man Parrish,
Ohio Players,
The Last Poets,
Aaron Thompson,
the Fania All-Stars,
Inner City,
David McCallum,
Vladislav Delay,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.