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 Rwanda 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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the crunk 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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All Vaughan Mason & Crew tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
Panda Bear,
Sugar Minott,
Blancmange,
Camouflage,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
PIL,
June of 44,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Hasil Adkins,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Kenny Larkin,
JFA,
Mission of Burma,
Audionom,
L. Decosne,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eric B and Rakim,
Saccharine Trust,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gong,
Absolute Body Control,
New York Dolls,
Charles Mingus,
The Vogues,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cymande,
Sparks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Underground Resistance,
Accadde A,
Pharoah Sanders,
Von Mondo,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marcia Griffiths,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Theoretical Girls,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Unwound,
Alton Ellis,
Lakeside,
Depeche Mode,
Altered Images,
The Red Krayola,
Robert Görl,
Ituana,
Piero Umiliani,
Joensuu 1685,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Birthday Party,
Fugazi,
Throbbing Gristle,
Anthony Braxton,
Mandrill,
Jimmy McGriff,
Albert Ayler,
Amazonics,
Tommy Roe,
Gang Gang Dance,
Black Sheep, Black Sheep, Black Sheep, Black Sheep.
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.