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 Paraguay and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 spring reverb 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 Mission of Burma to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
Deadbeat,
Joe Finger,
Toni Rubio,
Delta 5,
Swans,
Skriet,
New Order,
Johnny Clarke,
the Association,
Donald Byrd,
The Associates,
Robert Wyatt,
Jandek,
Magma,
The Velvet Underground,
Half Japanese,
The Sonics,
The Human League,
Brand Nubian,
Pole,
Marmalade,
Joy Division,
PIL,
The Techniques,
Rakim,
Magazine,
Matthew Bourne,
Mark Hollis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Make Up,
Q and Not U,
Alison Limerick,
Oblivians,
Yazoo,
Steve Hackett,
Hardrive,
Junior Murvin,
8 Eyed Spy,
China Crisis,
Lungfish,
Mandrill,
James White and The Blacks,
D'Angelo,
Ice-T,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Angry Samoans,
Dennis Brown,
Eric Dolphy,
Mantronix,
Connie Case,
This Heat,
The Golliwogs,
Lou Reed,
Curtis Mayfield,
Josef K,
Intrusion,
Bill Near,
Barry Ungar,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Malaria!,
Lebanon Hanover,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.