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 Kenya 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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Laurel Aitken record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
Suburban Knight,
Girls At Our Best!,
Don Cherry,
Bang On A Can,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Agitation Free,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Seeds,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Morten Harket,
Scan 7,
The United States of America,
Adolescents,
The Dead C,
UT,
Erasure,
The Neon Judgement,
Peter & Gordon,
These Immortal Souls,
Dead Boys,
Sonic Youth,
Average White Band,
Jeff Mills,
Patti Smith,
R.M.O.,
Rakim,
Nirvana,
Sly & The Family Stone,
DNA,
The Motions,
Graham Central Station,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Guru Guru,
The Smiths,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
This Heat,
The Fire Engines,
Soul II Soul,
the Fania All-Stars,
Chris & Cosey,
Johnny Clarke,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Soft Cell,
Black Bananas,
ABC,
Absolute Body Control,
Angry Samoans,
The Cramps,
Bizarre Inc.,
Scrapy,
Stiv Bators,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ronnie Foster,
Stockholm Monsters,
Newcleus,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Brand Nubian,
Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja.
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.