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 Antigua and from Delhi.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Motions to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Popol Vuh tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Copeland record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Big Daddy Kane,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Fall,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Stetsasonic,
Minny Pops,
Stiv Bators,
Slick Rick,
This Heat,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Desert Stars,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
X-Ray Spex,
Aloha Tigers,
Sonny Sharrock,
Delta 5,
Bobby Byrd,
Dave Gahan,
Dawn Penn,
Can,
David Bowie,
The Doobie Brothers,
Wally Richardson,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Warsaw,
cv313,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Young Marble Giants,
World's Most,
David McCallum,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang of Four,
PIL,
Rotary Connection,
Sällskapet,
The Gladiators,
Brass Construction,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Skatalites,
the Human League,
Fugazi,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Anakelly,
Siglo XX,
KRS-One,
Barry Ungar,
Arcadia,
Bronski Beat,
Cymande,
Dual Sessions,
Ponytail,
Vainqueur,
Rosa Yemen,
Ituana,
Freddie Wadling,
Isaac Hayes,
Basic Channel,
Stereo Dub,
Arab on Radar,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.