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 Cuba and from Tokyo.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 guitar 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 Joensuu 1685 to the funk 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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Outsiders,
Alphaville,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Danielle Patucci,
Donald Byrd,
Crooked Eye,
Unwound,
The Raincoats,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Aural Exciters,
Slick Rick,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Crispy Ambulance,
Aaron Thompson,
The Skatalites,
Oneida,
Blossom Toes,
E-Dancer,
Bobby Sherman,
The Doobie Brothers,
Man Parrish,
Maleditus Sound,
The Flesh Eaters,
48th St. Collective,
Essential Logic,
Accadde A,
Skaos,
The Invisible,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ornette Coleman,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Fugs,
the Human League,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Angry Samoans,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Black Moon,
Loose Ends,
EPMD,
Bang On A Can,
Dual Sessions,
K-Klass,
Tears for Fears,
Young Marble Giants,
R.M.O.,
the Slits,
Royal Trux,
The Count Five,
Davy DMX,
The Smiths,
Joy Division,
Clear Light,
T. Rex,
Sandy B,
Rites of Spring,
Peter & Gordon,
Tim Buckley,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.