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 Cuba and from Manila.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Ice-T to the dance 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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
the Sonics,
Chris & Cosey,
Sun Ra,
Sam Rivers,
Cheater Slicks,
Kurtis Blow,
Joe Smooth,
The Mojo Men,
The Selecter,
Girls At Our Best!,
Joe Finger,
Infiniti,
UT,
Kenny Larkin,
ABC,
a-ha,
The Cramps,
Quando Quango,
Lebanon Hanover,
Moss Icon,
Soft Machine,
Scott Walker,
Livin' Joy,
Crooked Eye,
Youth Brigade,
Sound Behaviour,
Ronan,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Alarm Clocks,
Barbara Tucker,
Talk Talk,
Mary Jane Girls,
Camberwell Now,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Alison Limerick,
Interpol,
Avey Tare,
Ohio Players,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Amon Düül,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Urselle,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Skriet,
Boogie Down Productions,
T.S.O.L.,
World's Most,
Vainqueur,
Oneida,
Harry Pussy,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jandek,
Gichy Dan,
Niagra,
10cc,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.