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 Cape Verde and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Moss Icon to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Animal Collective 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Neil Young record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Jeff Lynne,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Surgeon,
Half Japanese,
Cameo,
Byron Stingily,
Arthur Verocai,
The Slits,
Zapp,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jandek,
China Crisis,
Jawbox,
Supertramp,
Sonic Youth,
The Associates,
The Star Department,
The Black Dice,
a-ha,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eddi Front,
Erasure,
Gregory Isaacs,
Radio Birdman,
Sam Rivers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Quando Quango,
Fugazi,
Chris Corsano,
the Bar-Kays,
Depeche Mode,
LL Cool J,
Aaron Thompson,
Scrapy,
Public Image Ltd.,
Agitation Free,
Japan,
The Blues Magoos,
Kerri Chandler,
Grandmaster Flash,
Thompson Twins,
Negative Approach,
Heaven 17,
Metal Thangz,
John Lydon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Freddie Wadling,
Soulsonic Force,
The Stooges,
Rosa Yemen,
Steve Hackett,
Marshall Jefferson,
Faust,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bush Tetras,
Blancmange,
Country Joe & The Fish,
OOIOO,
Mo-Dettes,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.