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 Panama and from Seoul.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 KRS-One to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Can. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Graham Central Station record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Smoke,
Max Romeo,
Von Mondo,
Popol Vuh,
Erasure,
The Star Department,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Throbbing Gristle,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kool Moe Dee,
Vainqueur,
Rekid,
Metal Thangz,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Amon Düül II,
JFA,
the Sonics,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ten City,
The Sound,
The Motions,
Tubeway Army,
Monolake,
Soul II Soul,
Crash Course in Science,
Altered Images,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lou Christie,
Rakim,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Smiths,
The New Christs,
The Alarm Clocks,
Television Personalities,
Hot Snakes,
Animal Collective,
La Düsseldorf,
Brothers Johnson,
Schoolly D,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Flamin' Groovies,
Half Japanese,
Alison Limerick,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Scratch Acid,
Accadde A,
The Cowsills,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brand Nubian,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Inner City,
Neil Young,
Dual Sessions,
MC5,
Avey Tare,
Bad Manners,
The Move,
Sonny Sharrock,
Terrestrial Tones,
Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone.
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.