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 Armenia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Danielle Patucci to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Louis and Bebe Barron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos 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 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
EPMD,
Reuben Wilson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
New York Dolls,
Television,
Saccharine Trust,
Talk Talk,
One Last Wish,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
R.M.O.,
Pylon,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lou Christie,
Nirvana,
Mo-Dettes,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Qualms,
Tom Boy,
the Slits,
Gang Green,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Camberwell Now,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Inner City,
The Black Dice,
Clear Light,
Charles Mingus,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Toni Rubio,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Arcadia,
Deadbeat,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Schoolly D,
the Normal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Symarip,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Royal Trux,
Nas,
Audionom,
The American Breed,
Television Personalities,
Lou Reed,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rod Modell,
A Certain Ratio,
Jesper Dahlback,
Neil Young,
the Germs,
The Angels of Light,
Infiniti,
Pulsallama,
Sun Ra,
Thee Headcoats,
Altered Images,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.