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 Ukraine and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Lonnie Liston Smith to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fugazi record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Simply Red,
Fugazi,
Mo-Dettes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Remains,
Letta Mbulu,
Nas,
Colin Newman,
Absolute Body Control,
Ludus,
The Gladiators,
Aaron Thompson,
CMW,
Rufus Thomas,
Fela Kuti,
June Days,
Erykah Badu,
the Germs,
Negative Approach,
Sparks,
Gang Starr,
Connie Case,
Black Bananas,
Gang Green,
Ten City,
The Gories,
Bill Near,
Tom Boy,
Hoover,
Fluxion,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ituana,
Section 25,
Camberwell Now,
Freddie Wadling,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Tubeway Army,
Blake Baxter,
Josef K,
Trumans Water,
Soul Sonic Force,
U.S. Maple,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Associates,
The Sound,
Procol Harum,
the Normal,
Delon & Dalcan,
Henry Cow,
Laurel Aitken,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lungfish,
Ultra Naté,
Index,
Severed Heads,
The Electric Prunes,
Franke,
New Age Steppers,
The Count Five,
Bronski Beat,
Desert Stars,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.