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 Korea North and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 organ 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 Echo & the Bunnymen to the jazz 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 Chris Corsano. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans 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?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Negative Approach,
Tubeway Army,
Alice Coltrane,
The Black Dice,
The J.B.'s,
Flamin' Groovies,
Oblivians,
Funkadelic,
Brothers Johnson,
Harmonia,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Arab on Radar,
Average White Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Siglo XX,
Danielle Patucci,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Janne Schatter,
Alton Ellis,
The Monochrome Set,
Boz Scaggs,
Black Pus,
Wings,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bizarre Inc.,
Zapp,
Bronski Beat,
Marshall Jefferson,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
World's Most,
The Buckinghams,
The Fire Engines,
Soft Cell,
Dual Sessions,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Steve Hackett,
Jeff Mills,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
DNA,
Jimmy McGriff,
ABC,
The Zeros,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Smiths,
DJ Style,
The Trojans,
Intrusion,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Knickerbockers,
Maurizio,
DJ Sneak,
Soulsonic Force,
Ituana,
Black Moon,
A Certain Ratio,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Human League,
Crooked Eye,
R.M.O.,
Glenn Branca,
Mad Mike,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.