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 Eritrea and from Jakarta.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Donald Fagen 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 Fluxion to the grunge 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 Harpers Bizarre. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Make Up,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Mummies,
Brick,
These Immortal Souls,
K-Klass,
Quando Quango,
Gang of Four,
JFA,
Steve Hackett,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bizarre Inc.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eric B and Rakim,
Zapp,
Black Moon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Dead C,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Electric Prunes,
Pylon,
Silicon Teens,
Eden Ahbez,
Lower 48,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cybotron,
CMW,
Excepter,
Harmonia,
Jacques Brel,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Carl Craig,
Procol Harum,
Black Sheep,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Vogues,
Minutemen,
Marc Almond,
Arab on Radar,
World's Most,
Masters at Work,
Youth Brigade,
Essential Logic,
UT,
The Residents,
Altered Images,
Joey Negro,
Jerry's Kids,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Faust,
The Fugs,
Cluster,
Rekid,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mission of Burma,
Radiopuhelimet,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.