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 Romania and from Bremen.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare 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 Davy DMX to the techno 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
The Standells,
Ronan,
The Shadows of Knight,
Yellowson,
Crash Course in Science,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Stockholm Monsters,
Agitation Free,
Urselle,
Roger Hodgson,
JFA,
E-Dancer,
Byron Stingily,
Slave,
Althea and Donna,
cv313,
Peter and Kerry,
Brass Construction,
Nick Fraelich,
Jawbox,
Oneida,
Gang of Four,
Ken Boothe,
Kerri Chandler,
The Gories,
Ten City,
Stereo Dub,
Sonic Youth,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jandek,
ABBA,
The Victims,
Robert Hood,
Buzzcocks,
Big Daddy Kane,
La Düsseldorf,
Intrusion,
Main Source,
X-102,
The Mojo Men,
Connie Case,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Electric Prunes,
The Pretty Things,
Camberwell Now,
Chris Corsano,
Mark Hollis,
Animal Collective,
Sun City Girls,
Matthew Halsall,
Brick,
These Immortal Souls,
The Neon Judgement,
Johnny Clarke,
Sister Nancy,
The Slits,
Kurtis Blow,
Black Pus,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.