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 Italy and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Calgary.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Moebius to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Soft Cell,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bush Tetras,
Quando Quango,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bobby Sherman,
Arab on Radar,
Gong,
Wally Richardson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Amon Düül II,
Cybotron,
Soul Sonic Force,
Grey Daturas,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barbara Tucker,
Sällskapet,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Crime,
R.M.O.,
The Gladiators,
The Young Rascals,
The Smoke,
Goldenarms,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Last Poets,
Khruangbin,
John Coltrane,
Lightning Bolt,
Pulsallama,
48th St. Collective,
Neu!,
The Smiths,
Cluster,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Dennis Brown,
Sandy B,
The Kinks,
The Vogues,
Danielle Patucci,
The Invisible,
Minnie Riperton,
Warren Ellis,
James Chance & The Contortions,
MDC,
Scion,
The Alarm Clocks,
Quantec,
Mantronix,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Quadrant,
Pylon,
Motorama,
The Searchers,
Bootsy Collins,
Niagra,
Soulsonic Force,
Arthur Verocai,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.