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 Syria and from Portland.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 808 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 Hasil Adkins 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 The Kinks. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Malaria! 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 spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
The Velvet Underground,
Shuggie Otis,
Avey Tare,
Swans,
Stiv Bators,
The Gun Club,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Country Teasers,
Neu!,
Eric Dolphy,
The Moody Blues,
Minutemen,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gregory Isaacs,
Crispian St. Peters,
Drive Like Jehu,
10cc,
the Normal,
Rites of Spring,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Shadows of Knight,
Tubeway Army,
Pierre Henry,
Gerry Rafferty,
Glenn Branca,
The Angels of Light,
OOIOO,
The Barracudas,
Los Fastidios,
Bill Wells,
Yaz,
The Evens,
Magazine,
The Toasters,
Black Moon,
Aaron Thompson,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Camberwell Now,
Smog,
Sällskapet,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Animal Collective,
The Leaves,
The Walker Brothers,
Quando Quango,
Tres Demented,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Popol Vuh,
the Sonics,
Black Sheep,
Livin' Joy,
The Neon Judgement,
The Residents,
Marcia Griffiths,
Roger Hodgson,
Michelle Simonal,
the Fania All-Stars,
Index,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.