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 Bangladesh and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 theremin 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 Silicon Teens to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Organ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Saccharine Trust,
Ohio Players,
Zapp,
The Cure,
Second Layer,
Duran Duran,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gang Starr,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Cheater Slicks,
The Trojans,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Easy Going,
Aloha Tigers,
Soft Machine,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Spoonie Gee,
Ossler,
Bang On A Can,
Panda Bear,
Trumans Water,
Ituana,
Mars,
Youth Brigade,
Stereo Dub,
Make Up,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Los Fastidios,
Rufus Thomas,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Dirtbombs,
The New Christs,
Silicon Teens,
Television,
Guru Guru,
The Seeds,
The Barracudas,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Tremeloes,
The Fall,
Boz Scaggs,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bush Tetras,
Excepter,
Brass Construction,
Sandy B,
Carl Craig,
Underground Resistance,
Buzzcocks,
Roxy Music,
Ken Boothe,
Icehouse,
Frankie Knuckles,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
U.S. Maple,
Thee Headcoats,
Surgeon,
Maurizio,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.