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 Libya and from Cairo.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gian Franco Pienzio. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dead C record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Wells,
Con Funk Shun,
Marine Girls,
Crime,
Delta 5,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Marshall Jefferson,
Babytalk,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Glenn Branca,
The Gories,
the Slits,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ice-T,
Malaria!,
The Saints,
Nik Kershaw,
Kayak,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bizarre Inc.,
Crash Course in Science,
Pantaleimon,
Lou Reed,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Liliput,
Anakelly,
Lalann,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Blossom Toes,
Scan 7,
Magma,
Kaleidoscope,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eli Mardock,
Motorama,
JFA,
Rekid,
Black Pus,
Brothers Johnson,
Crispian St. Peters,
Zero Boys,
Blake Baxter,
Crooked Eye,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
UT,
Danielle Patucci,
Chrome,
Ultra Naté,
Ossler,
One Last Wish,
Bang On A Can,
Amon Düül II,
Dennis Brown,
Stiv Bators,
the Germs,
Bobby Byrd,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Quadrant,
Idris Muhammad,
the Human League,
Hardrive,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.