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 Panama and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Country Joe & The Fish 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
Joyce Sims,
Adolescents,
Saccharine Trust,
Panda Bear,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Warren Ellis,
Pole,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Delta 5,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Sound,
Average White Band,
Country Teasers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Zero Boys,
Goldenarms,
K-Klass,
Bush Tetras,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Visage,
Yusef Lateef,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Danielle Patucci,
Shoche,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rhythm & Sound,
Oblivians,
James White and The Blacks,
Throbbing Gristle,
Soft Cell,
Radiohead,
The American Breed,
R.M.O.,
Altered Images,
Sugar Minott,
Anakelly,
Los Fastidios,
Tears for Fears,
Mr. Review,
Mandrill,
Arab on Radar,
The J.B.'s,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Laurel Aitken,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Smiths,
The Beau Brummels,
The Count Five,
the Association,
Motorama,
Brick,
Schoolly D,
Suicide,
Junior Murvin,
Groovy Waters,
The Velvet Underground,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
OOIOO,
DNA,
Heaven 17,
The Move,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.