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 Guinea-Bissau and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 snare 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 X-101 to the funk 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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon 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 güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Scratch Acid,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Crispian St. Peters,
Derrick May,
Sam Rivers,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Young Rascals,
Gang Starr,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eric Dolphy,
Lucky Dragons,
Lyres,
Masters at Work,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dennis Brown,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Soul Sonic Force,
DNA,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mad Mike,
Technova,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Heaven 17,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Skatalites,
Dead Boys,
Con Funk Shun,
Shuggie Otis,
Tears for Fears,
Los Fastidios,
Crime,
Wire,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Little Man,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pantaleimon,
Chris & Cosey,
Sex Pistols,
Stereo Dub,
Circle Jerks,
48th St. Collective,
The Doors,
Pierre Henry,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Malaria!,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Moleskins,
The Sound,
Jerry Gold Smith,
MC5,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Letta Mbulu,
Grandmaster Flash,
Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters.
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.