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 Maldives and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 10cc to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jacob Miller. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masters at Work record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalo Schifrin,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Peter and Kerry,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Groovy Waters,
R.M.O.,
Visage,
Barbara Tucker,
The Sound,
Byron Stingily,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Anthony Braxton,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Cowsills,
Theoretical Girls,
The Electric Prunes,
LL Cool J,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Freddie Wadling,
Marine Girls,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Happenings,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Brick,
Johnny Osbourne,
Dawn Penn,
KRS-One,
Pere Ubu,
Stereo Dub,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Kinks,
John Coltrane,
Lalann,
Second Layer,
X-102,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Human League,
The Sonics,
Dark Day,
Robert Hood,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bill Wells,
Drive Like Jehu,
Moby Grape,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Monochrome Set,
The Gun Club,
Morten Harket,
Big Daddy Kane,
Y Pants,
Inner City,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Durutti Column,
Flipper,
Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith.
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.