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 United Kingdom and from Lagos.
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 Sao Paulo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 China Crisis to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Panda Bear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Blake Baxter,
The Martian,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Toni Rubio,
Gregory Isaacs,
Janne Schatter,
The Golliwogs,
The Angels of Light,
Colin Newman,
Bootsy Collins,
Neu!,
The Searchers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Al Stewart,
10cc,
Howard Jones,
Jacques Brel,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fatback Band,
Soul II Soul,
Rufus Thomas,
Matthew Bourne,
JFA,
Black Flag,
Wolf Eyes,
Eurythmics,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Dark Day,
Jacob Miller,
the Swans,
The Birthday Party,
Infiniti,
The Buckinghams,
Barry Ungar,
Mo-Dettes,
The Grass Roots,
Gichy Dan,
Ralphi Rosario,
Grandmaster Flash,
ABC,
The Fall,
Danielle Patucci,
LL Cool J,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yazoo,
Tropical Tobacco,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lee Hazlewood,
Delon & Dalcan,
Harpers Bizarre,
Public Enemy,
Marcia Griffiths,
Laurel Aitken,
Blancmange,
DJ Style,
John Holt,
Joe Finger,
Morten Harket,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.