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 Tajikistan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Idris Muhammad to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Walker Brothers,
Grauzone,
Ten City,
Iggy Pop,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gap Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bizarre Inc.,
Theoretical Girls,
Arab on Radar,
Oblivians,
Organ,
The Beau Brummels,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Country Teasers,
Black Bananas,
The Mojo Men,
Freddie Wadling,
Animal Collective,
Rosa Yemen,
Lalo Schifrin,
Man Parrish,
The Real Kids,
Ken Boothe,
Easy Going,
Aaron Thompson,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Selecter,
B.T. Express,
Aloha Tigers,
The Fall,
Monolake,
Yaz,
Godley & Creme,
Mark Hollis,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gabor Szabo,
These Immortal Souls,
Hardrive,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scrapy,
La Düsseldorf,
Piero Umiliani,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gang Green,
Barbara Tucker,
The Dirtbombs,
Unwound,
Sam Rivers,
Lebanon Hanover,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Human League,
R.M.O.,
Pantaleimon,
John Lydon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Reed,
Sugar Minott,
Sarah Menescal,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.