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 Sweden and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 T.S.O.L. to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lafayette Afro Rock Band 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
Sun City Girls,
Joe Smooth,
LL Cool J,
Clear Light,
Kerri Chandler,
Electric Prunes,
Brick,
Skriet,
Warren Ellis,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ronnie Foster,
Whodini,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Aural Exciters,
The Pretty Things,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Swans,
Ituana,
Royal Trux,
Eurythmics,
E-Dancer,
Scratch Acid,
Danielle Patucci,
Pussy Galore,
Flamin' Groovies,
L. Decosne,
48th St. Collective,
The Gap Band,
The Move,
Minutemen,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
China Crisis,
Pylon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Amon Düül,
Guru Guru,
The Sound,
The Gories,
The Selecter,
the Slits,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Evens,
Crispy Ambulance,
Boredoms,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Harry Pussy,
Scrapy,
Carl Craig,
Todd Terry,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Crooked Eye,
Sexual Harrassment,
Blancmange,
Brand Nubian,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Zero Boys,
Cybotron,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.