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 Kiribati and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Madrid.
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 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 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
David Axelrod,
Jerry's Kids,
Franke,
X-102,
Sun Ra,
Lakeside,
The Cramps,
Darondo,
Yusef Lateef,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sex Pistols,
Rosa Yemen,
Arcadia,
Tears for Fears,
Sonic Youth,
Morten Harket,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tommy Roe,
Hasil Adkins,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Easy Going,
Juan Atkins,
Chris & Cosey,
Can,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jacques Brel,
Echospace,
One Last Wish,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pharoah Sanders,
Erasure,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Porter Ricks,
Nils Olav,
The Neon Judgement,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Gap Band,
David McCallum,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Don Cherry,
Big Daddy Kane,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ronnie Foster,
L. Decosne,
Glenn Branca,
Eli Mardock,
Cameo,
Malaria!,
Rapeman,
Brand Nubian,
The Mojo Men,
Groovy Waters,
B.T. Express,
Isaac Hayes,
Supertramp,
The Birthday Party,
Motorama,
Lungfish,
Alison Limerick,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.