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 Nicaragua and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Donny Hathaway to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Todd Terry,
R.M.O.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Motorama,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Erasure,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Charles Mingus,
Pole,
Soul II Soul,
Derrick May,
Public Enemy,
Wasted Youth,
Schoolly D,
The Cowsills,
The Blues Magoos,
Aaron Thompson,
Eric Copeland,
Connie Case,
Ronan,
John Holt,
the Human League,
a-ha,
Whodini,
T.S.O.L.,
U.S. Maple,
Das Ding,
Chrome,
Swell Maps,
New York Dolls,
Symarip,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Alphaville,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Drexciya,
Unrelated Segments,
Scan 7,
Bill Wells,
Monolake,
Ponytail,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Star Department,
Archie Shepp,
The Angels of Light,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Young Rascals,
Infiniti,
Danielle Patucci,
Marvin Gaye,
Wolf Eyes,
Jeff Mills,
Bush Tetras,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Stooges,
Angry Samoans,
The Red Krayola,
Byron Stingily,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Misunderstood,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.