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 Greece and from Spokane.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Shanghai.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Joey Negro 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Banda Bassotti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Gories,
Derrick Morgan,
Rosa Yemen,
LL Cool J,
Trumans Water,
ABC,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Drive Like Jehu,
DJ Sneak,
Model 500,
Pierre Henry,
Gichy Dan,
Rapeman,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
H. Thieme,
Maleditus Sound,
Jandek,
Quadrant,
The Stooges,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Flash Fearless,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fatback Band,
Basic Channel,
Boz Scaggs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Blackbyrds,
Animal Collective,
Mandrill,
Fat Boys,
Young Marble Giants,
Roxette,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Toni Rubio,
Black Flag,
Crooked Eye,
Arab on Radar,
Moby Grape,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bad Manners,
UT,
Camouflage,
The Victims,
Cymande,
New York Dolls,
Los Fastidios,
Suicide,
Suburban Knight,
Joe Smooth,
Leonard Cohen,
The Motions,
Alison Limerick,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ponytail,
Sun City Girls,
L. Decosne,
Excepter,
Arcadia,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.