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 Macedonia and from New York.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
The Techniques,
Animal Collective,
The Detroit Cobras,
Agitation Free,
Radiohead,
Donny Hathaway,
The Star Department,
Curtis Mayfield,
Man Parrish,
Tomorrow,
Circle Jerks,
Hardrive,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Robert Görl,
Sister Nancy,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ultimate Spinach,
Harmonia,
Rufus Thomas,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Fuzztones,
Cameo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Golliwogs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nick Fraelich,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Arthur Verocai,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Terry Callier,
Faraquet,
Ralphi Rosario,
Aswad,
Black Moon,
Cal Tjader,
A Certain Ratio,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Knickerbockers,
Nico,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Pierre Henry,
Motorama,
Panda Bear,
Girls At Our Best!,
Main Source,
The Blues Magoos,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
B.T. Express,
Fugazi,
The J.B.'s,
Stiv Bators,
Laurel Aitken,
X-Ray Spex,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Mission of Burma,
Terrestrial Tones,
Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant.
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.