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 Italy and from Bologna.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 MC5 to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All The United States of America tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
H. Thieme,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pulsallama,
Wire,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Colin Newman,
Black Bananas,
The United States of America,
Adolescents,
Quando Quango,
Television,
E-Dancer,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Metal Thangz,
Alton Ellis,
Freddie Wadling,
Inner City,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rod Modell,
Judy Mowatt,
Henry Cow,
Althea and Donna,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Panda Bear,
Circle Jerks,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Skaos,
Drexciya,
Sixth Finger,
Ituana,
Frankie Knuckles,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Remains,
Tubeway Army,
Bobby Womack,
Dave Gahan,
Bronski Beat,
Kenny Larkin,
Groovy Waters,
The Gun Club,
DJ Sneak,
The Sonics,
Jeff Lynne,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Archie Shepp,
Blancmange,
Donny Hathaway,
Franke,
Das Ding,
Suicide,
The Blackbyrds,
New Order,
Mark Hollis,
David McCallum,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nas,
Animal Collective,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
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.