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 Ethiopia and from Tehran.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Houston.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
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 10cc to the grime 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 Desert Stars. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Livin' Joy,
Boz Scaggs,
Curtis Mayfield,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Motions,
Massinfluence,
The Associates,
Radio Birdman,
Johnny Osbourne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Negative Approach,
Sandy B,
Public Image Ltd.,
Panda Bear,
Joey Negro,
Slave,
The Fugs,
Charles Mingus,
Cluster,
Radiohead,
Tim Buckley,
John Cale,
Con Funk Shun,
Oneida,
The Sound,
48th St. Collective,
Desert Stars,
The Fortunes,
a-ha,
Fad Gadget,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Drexciya,
Mission of Burma,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lakeside,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Silicon Teens,
Wally Richardson,
Eric Dolphy,
Iggy Pop,
Pantaleimon,
Roxette,
Sonic Youth,
Surgeon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lebanon Hanover,
Black Pus,
Althea and Donna,
Boredoms,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Slackers,
The Smiths,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Remains,
Pagans,
Carl Craig,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.