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 Malta and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 mellotron 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 Marmalade to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Standells. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a H. Thieme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camouflage,
Los Fastidios,
Bush Tetras,
Ten City,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Germs,
Eric Dolphy,
The Monochrome Set,
Ronan,
New York Dolls,
Barbara Tucker,
Ice-T,
Leonard Cohen,
The Associates,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Amazonics,
Das Ding,
Bang On A Can,
ABBA,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rosa Yemen,
Motorama,
The Dead C,
Funkadelic,
Graham Central Station,
Janne Schatter,
Ornette Coleman,
The Mojo Men,
Kaleidoscope,
One Last Wish,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Eurythmics,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Colin Newman,
Lindisfarne,
New Order,
Cheater Slicks,
Lou Christie,
Popol Vuh,
FM Einheit,
Can,
Blake Baxter,
The Smoke,
Rufus Thomas,
The Standells,
Warren Ellis,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Section 25,
The Cramps,
Public Image Ltd.,
Deepchord,
L. Decosne,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Japan,
DJ Style,
Buzzcocks,
The Pretty Things,
Todd Rundgren,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.