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 Tunisia and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Easy Going to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Beau Brummels,
Von Mondo,
Joe Smooth,
Adolescents,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Glenn Branca,
Pet Shop Boys,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Todd Terry,
Danielle Patucci,
Jeff Lynne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cal Tjader,
New York Dolls,
Panda Bear,
Traffic Nightmare,
Quadrant,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eric Copeland,
Los Fastidios,
Absolute Body Control,
The Blackbyrds,
Gong,
Reagan Youth,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Dark Day,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lebanon Hanover,
Mantronix,
Brand Nubian,
Toni Rubio,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Birthday Party,
X-102,
Howard Jones,
Dual Sessions,
The Moleskins,
Mark Hollis,
The Grass Roots,
Kayak,
Sonic Youth,
The Walker Brothers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Crime,
John Foxx,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
AZ,
Lalann,
the Slits,
Robert Wyatt,
Barbara Tucker,
Duran Duran,
Althea and Donna,
Heaven 17,
Fela Kuti,
Sun Ra,
Silicon Teens,
Bootsy Collins,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.