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 Guinea-Bissau and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum 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 T.S.O.L. to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Altered Images. All the underground hits.
All Grey Daturas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pussy Galore record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
Lucky Dragons,
Sarah Menescal,
Eli Mardock,
Roger Hodgson,
Hardrive,
Average White Band,
Shoche,
Bang On A Can,
Young Marble Giants,
Gastr Del Sol,
Basic Channel,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bobby Byrd,
Black Flag,
Underground Resistance,
The Cramps,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
cv313,
Japan,
Negative Approach,
Danielle Patucci,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Associates,
Monks,
Supertramp,
Laurel Aitken,
The Index,
Little Man,
The Kinks,
Boz Scaggs,
Parry Music,
Popol Vuh,
Wasted Youth,
Magma,
Ice-T,
Joy Division,
Blossom Toes,
Fear,
Crash Course in Science,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Second Layer,
Excepter,
Sonic Youth,
The Evens,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Marmalade,
Sonny Sharrock,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Howard Jones,
Von Mondo,
Rites of Spring,
The Leaves,
John Cale,
The Pop Group,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
A Certain Ratio,
Crispian St. Peters,
F. McDonald,
New Order,
Magazine,
10cc,
The Velvet Underground,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.