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 France and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Edmonton.
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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jawbox to the jazz 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 The Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
Minor Threat,
Metal Thangz,
David Axelrod,
David McCallum,
June of 44,
The Black Dice,
Mandrill,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Mojo Men,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Cymande,
Sarah Menescal,
China Crisis,
the Soft Cell,
Erykah Badu,
Can,
Peter and Kerry,
Johnny Osbourne,
Boz Scaggs,
Boredoms,
Juan Atkins,
Buzzcocks,
The Standells,
Yaz,
Sight & Sound,
The Mummies,
Jerry's Kids,
Idris Muhammad,
Altered Images,
One Last Wish,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Cowsills,
Bang On A Can,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kool Moe Dee,
Outsiders,
Man Eating Sloth,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Kinks,
Scion,
The Pop Group,
Morten Harket,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Sherman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The New Christs,
Rufus Thomas,
Model 500,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Animal Collective,
Steve Hackett,
Oneida,
Brick,
Big Daddy Kane,
Vainqueur,
Archie Shepp,
The Saints,
Faust,
Don Cherry,
Public Enemy,
Harry Pussy,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.