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 Rwanda and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Cluster to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All London Community Gospel Choir tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Popol Vuh record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
OOIOO,
Minutemen,
10cc,
H. Thieme,
The Moody Blues,
David Bowie,
Severed Heads,
Laurel Aitken,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Skaos,
The Monochrome Set,
Pole,
Todd Terry,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
John Coltrane,
Bluetip,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Goldenarms,
Can,
Reuben Wilson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Das Ding,
Mr. Review,
Yusef Lateef,
The Evens,
Unrelated Segments,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Piero Umiliani,
Angry Samoans,
Average White Band,
Nik Kershaw,
the Germs,
Bush Tetras,
a-ha,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jandek,
Con Funk Shun,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Techniques,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sonic Youth,
Glenn Branca,
Niagra,
Delta 5,
Brand Nubian,
Shuggie Otis,
Stiv Bators,
Schoolly D,
Theoretical Girls,
The Fire Engines,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sixth Finger,
Mary Jane Girls,
Royal Trux,
Q65,
Hot Snakes,
The Modern Lovers,
New Order,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.