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 Guinea and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the 808 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 Circle Jerks to the dance 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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Whodini,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lucky Dragons,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Soft Cell,
Siglo XX,
The Invisible,
Newcleus,
The Grass Roots,
Talk Talk,
The Fall,
The Doors,
The Martian,
Throbbing Gristle,
Jesper Dahlback,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Outsiders,
Bush Tetras,
Soft Machine,
Ludus,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Connie Case,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Joyce Sims,
Fad Gadget,
Sixth Finger,
Hoover,
The Mojo Men,
Nick Fraelich,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Jacob Miller,
Essential Logic,
the Swans,
Funky Four + One,
X-101,
Rekid,
Dorothy Ashby,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Darondo,
June of 44,
Aural Exciters,
Wasted Youth,
The Fugs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Barry Ungar,
Donny Hathaway,
the Slits,
Gang Gang Dance,
Cybotron,
Kas Product,
Man Parrish,
Charles Mingus,
Cal Tjader,
One Last Wish,
The Residents,
Duran Duran,
Banda Bassotti,
Eric B and Rakim,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gastr Del Sol,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
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.