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 Nauru and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ken Boothe to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gladiators,
Grandmaster Flash,
Crooked Eye,
La Düsseldorf,
Charles Mingus,
Johnny Clarke,
Minny Pops,
The Divine Comedy,
Cecil Taylor,
Fat Boys,
Iggy Pop,
Howard Jones,
The Barracudas,
Marshall Jefferson,
Man Eating Sloth,
Hardrive,
The Grass Roots,
R.M.O.,
Au Pairs,
Chris Corsano,
Pagans,
Television,
New Order,
James White and The Blacks,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Tubeway Army,
Jandek,
Pulsallama,
Moss Icon,
The Fortunes,
OOIOO,
Livin' Joy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Walker Brothers,
Aaron Thompson,
The Monochrome Set,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Agent Orange,
Josef K,
The Litter,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Marmalade,
Shoche,
The Techniques,
The Fall,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ponytail,
Rhythm & Sound,
Amon Düül II,
Arab on Radar,
Sonic Youth,
The Wake,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lungfish,
Aswad,
Harpers Bizarre,
DNA,
Symarip,
AZ,
Lucky Dragons,
Sarah Menescal,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.