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 Benin 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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Robert Görl to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Dead C. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Unrelated Segments,
Donny Hathaway,
Glenn Branca,
Ossler,
Isaac Hayes,
Von Mondo,
MC5,
Derrick May,
LL Cool J,
Pole,
Siglo XX,
Deadbeat,
Kaleidoscope,
Andrew Hill,
Fad Gadget,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Birthday Party,
Young Marble Giants,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Smoke,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lou Christie,
Scion,
the Human League,
Angry Samoans,
Sugar Minott,
The Cowsills,
Ultra Naté,
Sonic Youth,
The Busters,
The Electric Prunes,
Matthew Bourne,
David Axelrod,
Barclay James Harvest,
Yusef Lateef,
Albert Ayler,
Ornette Coleman,
Lalo Schifrin,
John Cale,
Fela Kuti,
These Immortal Souls,
Harmonia,
Ituana,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nico,
Anthony Braxton,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Liliput,
Sarah Menescal,
James Chance & The Contortions,
CMW,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Japan,
The Cure,
Silicon Teens,
Television,
Delta 5,
Juan Atkins,
A Flock of Seagulls,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.