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 States 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and New York.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Ituana,
Henry Cow,
The Slackers,
Avey Tare,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Section 25,
Whodini,
8 Eyed Spy,
Joe Finger,
cv313,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Niagra,
Amon Düül II,
Glenn Branca,
Minutemen,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moss Icon,
Barry Ungar,
Gong,
the Sonics,
Nas,
Make Up,
Desert Stars,
Underground Resistance,
Black Moon,
Neu!,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kool Moe Dee,
Robert Görl,
Althea and Donna,
Marshall Jefferson,
Babytalk,
The Fall,
Vladislav Delay,
Terrestrial Tones,
Joyce Sims,
Little Man,
The Martian,
Ten City,
The Blues Magoos,
The Beau Brummels,
Grey Daturas,
The Move,
Sixth Finger,
Joe Smooth,
Freddie Wadling,
Jimmy McGriff,
PIL,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Mars,
Bootsy Collins,
Soft Cell,
Bizarre Inc.,
Soulsonic Force,
Faraquet,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Drexciya,
Minny Pops,
The Sonics,
Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks.
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.