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 Mauritania and from Mumbai.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Icehouse to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke 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 an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Henry Cow,
Negative Approach,
Crime,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Motions,
Bluetip,
Ohio Players,
Rotary Connection,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Joe Smooth,
Flipper,
Aaron Thompson,
James White and The Blacks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dorothy Ashby,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
John Foxx,
the Human League,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kerri Chandler,
The J.B.'s,
Alison Limerick,
Pantytec,
Amon Düül,
Roger Hodgson,
Bill Near,
The Fugs,
John Coltrane,
Minor Threat,
Depeche Mode,
Procol Harum,
Warren Ellis,
Joyce Sims,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Erykah Badu,
Public Enemy,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Country Teasers,
Talk Talk,
Theoretical Girls,
Bad Manners,
Arthur Verocai,
Technova,
Big Daddy Kane,
Motorama,
The Evens,
Index,
The Fall,
Gang of Four,
The Zeros,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Radiohead,
Liliput,
UT,
These Immortal Souls,
Derrick Morgan,
Bang On A Can,
The Slits,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Dave Clark Five,
Stockholm Monsters,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.