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 Togo and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare 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 Kayak to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All R.M.O. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin 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 spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Marine Girls,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Swans,
Ralphi Rosario,
Moebius,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Smiths,
Subhumans,
David McCallum,
MDC,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Red Krayola,
The Slackers,
Monks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bobby Womack,
Tommy Roe,
Bizarre Inc.,
Skriet,
The Slits,
Sixth Finger,
Zapp,
Newcleus,
Goldenarms,
Barry Ungar,
Q and Not U,
June Days,
Intrusion,
The Happenings,
Pussy Galore,
Sam Rivers,
Black Moon,
Amon Düül,
John Cale,
Amon Düül II,
Animal Collective,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Anakelly,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Music Machine,
Agitation Free,
Deadbeat,
the Human League,
AZ,
Scan 7,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Knickerbockers,
Zero Boys,
Mandrill,
The Invisible,
Heaven 17,
T.S.O.L.,
Althea and Donna,
Stetsasonic,
the Germs,
Loose Ends,
Can,
The Mummies,
The Litter,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.