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 Turkey and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Rites of Spring to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Bananas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
Television Personalities,
The Happenings,
Qualms,
Guru Guru,
Jeff Mills,
Quadrant,
Thompson Twins,
Michelle Simonal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kevin Saunderson,
Robert Wyatt,
Lyres,
The Neon Judgement,
Moebius,
Donald Byrd,
Lou Christie,
The Sonics,
Aswad,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Arab on Radar,
Bronski Beat,
Cybotron,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rotary Connection,
Blake Baxter,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sandy B,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gladiators,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nik Kershaw,
Silicon Teens,
The Slackers,
The Names,
Eurythmics,
The Smiths,
Josef K,
Fatback Band,
Bob Dylan,
Basic Channel,
Graham Central Station,
Sällskapet,
John Cale,
Unwound,
Black Flag,
These Immortal Souls,
Alphaville,
Mark Hollis,
Mad Mike,
Soulsonic Force,
The Fugs,
New Order,
Glambeats Corp.,
In Retrospect,
the Germs,
U.S. Maple,
Bobby Womack,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.