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 Mexico and from Salvador.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Circle Jerks to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba 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 snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Visage,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eli Mardock,
Chrome,
Monolake,
Junior Murvin,
Cecil Taylor,
Anakelly,
Carl Craig,
The Monochrome Set,
The Fire Engines,
Zero Boys,
Marshall Jefferson,
Au Pairs,
The Toasters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Tom Boy,
Wally Richardson,
Ralphi Rosario,
Thee Headcoats,
Babytalk,
a-ha,
Cybotron,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
D'Angelo,
The Martian,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Normal,
Television,
the Swans,
Parry Music,
ABC,
AZ,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neil Young,
Urselle,
Black Bananas,
Juan Atkins,
Neu!,
Heaven 17,
Pagans,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rotary Connection,
Barrington Levy,
8 Eyed Spy,
Terry Callier,
Aaron Thompson,
the Sonics,
MDC,
Bobby Byrd,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Fall,
Tres Demented,
The Golliwogs,
Unwound,
Prince Buster,
Funkadelic,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.