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 Samoa and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 New York and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Monolake to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
L. Decosne,
Zapp,
Sonic Youth,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Vogues,
the Bar-Kays,
Gil Scott Heron,
Joey Negro,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Warren Ellis,
Hashim,
Henry Cow,
David Axelrod,
Aural Exciters,
Cybotron,
The Pretty Things,
Piero Umiliani,
48th St. Collective,
Davy DMX,
The Saints,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Tim Buckley,
The Moleskins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Five Americans,
Ronnie Foster,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Althea and Donna,
Drexciya,
Chrome,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pantaleimon,
Judy Mowatt,
Visage,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Juan Atkins,
The Slits,
Grandmaster Flash,
Joensuu 1685,
Schoolly D,
Pagans,
a-ha,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
David McCallum,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Skriet,
Main Source,
Thompson Twins,
Sex Pistols,
Fela Kuti,
Michelle Simonal,
Camberwell Now,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lee Hazlewood,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
the Human League,
Mark Hollis,
Rekid,
Hot Snakes,
UT, UT, UT, UT.
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.