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 Madagascar and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sonic Youth to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Suburban Knight,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Neon Judgement,
Peter and Kerry,
The Mojo Men,
La Düsseldorf,
Soul II Soul,
The J.B.'s,
the Swans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
MC5,
The Knickerbockers,
Anakelly,
Surgeon,
Cybotron,
The Happenings,
Can,
Ossler,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Cal Tjader,
Nico,
Buzzcocks,
Ituana,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ronan,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pylon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Cluster,
Alice Coltrane,
The Electric Prunes,
The Pretty Things,
ABC,
Kerri Chandler,
Porter Ricks,
Alphaville,
Radio Birdman,
June Days,
Reagan Youth,
The Cramps,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Tubeway Army,
Funkadelic,
Royal Trux,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rakim,
Piero Umiliani,
Amazonics,
Ultravox,
Nils Olav,
Chris Corsano,
The Evens,
Outsiders,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tom Boy,
Jesper Dahlback,
June of 44,
Don Cherry,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.