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 Portugal and from Philadelphia.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Alphaville to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Kings Of Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Manfred Mann's Earth Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Letta Mbulu,
The Last Poets,
Sugar Minott,
Pharoah Sanders,
kango's stein massive,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
UT,
Throbbing Gristle,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Five Americans,
Yaz,
cv313,
Whodini,
Basic Channel,
Rapeman,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Happenings,
Toni Rubio,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Neu!,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Donald Byrd,
Henry Cow,
Max Romeo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bauhaus,
the Human League,
Kerrie Biddell,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rosa Yemen,
Bill Near,
Bluetip,
Flash Fearless,
the Fania All-Stars,
Das Ding,
Jawbox,
Brass Construction,
Joey Negro,
Shuggie Otis,
Wolf Eyes,
Scott Walker,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Birthday Party,
Soul II Soul,
Jeff Mills,
Matthew Bourne,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Buckinghams,
The Velvet Underground,
Eric Dolphy,
The Divine Comedy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
X-101,
Popol Vuh,
One Last Wish,
The Golliwogs,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
David McCallum,
Cybotron,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.