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 Mongolia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 JFA to the rock 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
In Retrospect,
Moby Grape,
Donald Byrd,
Bauhaus,
Tom Boy,
Drive Like Jehu,
Skarface,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eve St. Jones,
Harmonia,
Dual Sessions,
Vladislav Delay,
Jeff Lynne,
Soul Sonic Force,
Robert Görl,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Joyce Sims,
Wally Richardson,
The Modern Lovers,
Brand Nubian,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Mo-Dettes,
Royal Trux,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
New Order,
David Axelrod,
Eric Dolphy,
Newcleus,
Lakeside,
The Trojans,
Yaz,
Boredoms,
Bluetip,
JFA,
Steve Hackett,
Sonic Youth,
Altered Images,
Terrestrial Tones,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Skatalites,
Gang Starr,
Deakin,
Sister Nancy,
Severed Heads,
Wolf Eyes,
Dave Gahan,
The Seeds,
Das Ding,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Funky Four + One,
The Gun Club,
Gastr Del Sol,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Section 25,
Pet Shop Boys,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Fall,
Avey Tare,
Shoche,
DJ Sneak,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.