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 Denmark and from Jakarta.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Jandek to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
Los Fastidios,
The Music Machine,
Morten Harket,
Infiniti,
Aloha Tigers,
The Skatalites,
Bush Tetras,
Gang of Four,
Animal Collective,
The Alarm Clocks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ken Boothe,
Livin' Joy,
Magma,
Ornette Coleman,
Cymande,
The Pop Group,
Alice Coltrane,
Ultimate Spinach,
Rufus Thomas,
Gang Gang Dance,
cv313,
New Age Steppers,
Ituana,
Faust,
Joey Negro,
Leonard Cohen,
Section 25,
The Mojo Men,
Essential Logic,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Agitation Free,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Neon Judgement,
The Seeds,
Aaron Thompson,
David Axelrod,
Robert Görl,
X-102,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Monks,
Echospace,
Alphaville,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
F. McDonald,
X-Ray Spex,
Jacques Brel,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ice-T,
Neu!,
Bill Near,
Jandek,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Grass Roots,
Max Romeo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Cal Tjader,
The Divine Comedy,
Arcadia,
The Fall,
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.