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 Vietnam 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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Unwound to the disco 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 The Invisible. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sex Pistols 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
Danielle Patucci,
Jeff Mills,
The Searchers,
John Coltrane,
These Immortal Souls,
Alice Coltrane,
Man Eating Sloth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
10cc,
the Swans,
Bluetip,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cluster,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jeff Lynne,
Sixth Finger,
Joyce Sims,
Terry Callier,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Association,
KRS-One,
The Evens,
DJ Sneak,
Quando Quango,
Colin Newman,
Marvin Gaye,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gil Scott Heron,
Make Up,
Harmonia,
The Cure,
Alphaville,
Lee Hazlewood,
June Days,
Kayak,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Deepchord,
Minutemen,
David Axelrod,
Negative Approach,
Sugar Minott,
The Blackbyrds,
Black Flag,
Sex Pistols,
The Electric Prunes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
cv313,
Outsiders,
Prince Buster,
The Residents,
The Doobie Brothers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eric Copeland,
Pantytec,
Stockholm Monsters,
Stetsasonic,
Altered Images,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.