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 Austria and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 linndrum 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 Ronan to the jazz 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 Jeff Mills. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
Albert Ayler,
Bill Wells,
Kayak,
AZ,
Crash Course in Science,
Franke,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ludus,
Pierre Henry,
Soul II Soul,
Fugazi,
Boogie Down Productions,
Janne Schatter,
Derrick May,
Cheater Slicks,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Human League,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
New Order,
Amon Düül,
Mo-Dettes,
Lalann,
Arcadia,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oneida,
Blancmange,
Television Personalities,
New York Dolls,
Index,
Wally Richardson,
Kas Product,
The Grass Roots,
Bobby Womack,
Prince Buster,
Lightning Bolt,
Donald Byrd,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Urselle,
Lee Hazlewood,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Niagra,
Rakim,
Excepter,
Brothers Johnson,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ultravox,
Max Romeo,
Negative Approach,
The Smoke,
Zapp,
The United States of America,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
DJ Style,
Donny Hathaway,
The Gap Band,
Lyres,
Tears for Fears,
Chris Corsano,
Lou Reed,
Girls At Our Best!,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.