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 Finland and from Madrid.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Motorama to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Faraquet,
Marvin Gaye,
Rakim,
Quando Quango,
One Last Wish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Aloha Tigers,
Jacob Miller,
Magazine,
Traffic Nightmare,
Junior Murvin,
Livin' Joy,
Anthony Braxton,
The Happenings,
X-102,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Deadbeat,
Steve Hackett,
The Evens,
The Walker Brothers,
Matthew Halsall,
Wasted Youth,
Johnny Clarke,
Metal Thangz,
Whodini,
Drive Like Jehu,
Deepchord,
Fad Gadget,
Television,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Absolute Body Control,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Buckinghams,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Cramps,
Rites of Spring,
Brass Construction,
Ohio Players,
The Knickerbockers,
Soul II Soul,
Glenn Branca,
Stiv Bators,
Bob Dylan,
Aaron Thompson,
Adolescents,
The Invisible,
Guru Guru,
The Young Rascals,
Ice-T,
Josef K,
Kenny Larkin,
The Fire Engines,
Eric Copeland,
Section 25,
Minnie Riperton,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Roxette,
Peter & Gordon,
Nik Kershaw,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.