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 Uruguay and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sonny Sharrock to the funk 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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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?
Morten Harket,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scan 7,
Warsaw,
Toni Rubio,
Minny Pops,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Judy Mowatt,
Kas Product,
Cluster,
Joy Division,
Isaac Hayes,
Amazonics,
Black Flag,
Mad Mike,
The Doors,
Nation of Ulysses,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fear,
Sun Ra,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ituana,
Soulsonic Force,
Q and Not U,
Tres Demented,
The Wake,
Junior Murvin,
UT,
X-101,
The Divine Comedy,
Terrestrial Tones,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kayak,
Wings,
The Neon Judgement,
Boogie Down Productions,
Funky Four + One,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
the Human League,
Porter Ricks,
Pagans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fatback Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Alison Limerick,
Yusef Lateef,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Drive Like Jehu,
Stiv Bators,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Drexciya,
Gichy Dan,
Joey Negro,
Parry Music,
Wally Richardson,
The Buckinghams,
Bad Manners,
Rosa Yemen,
Cecil Taylor,
Agitation Free,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.