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 Oman and from London.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Stiv Bators. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lightning Bolt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arthur Verocai,
Fear,
Inner City,
The Gun Club,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Second Layer,
Zapp,
The Human League,
Sound Behaviour,
Brothers Johnson,
Hoover,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Saints,
The United States of America,
Scrapy,
Slave,
KRS-One,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Youth Brigade,
Faraquet,
Althea and Donna,
Freddie Wadling,
Negative Approach,
Easy Going,
Electric Light Orchestra,
China Crisis,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Oblivians,
Rites of Spring,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Vladislav Delay,
Young Marble Giants,
Banda Bassotti,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mars,
Scan 7,
Sparks,
Delta 5,
Magazine,
cv313,
E-Dancer,
The Smiths,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Cowsills,
Television,
Tears for Fears,
Angry Samoans,
UT,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nas,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Aswad,
The Standells,
The Durutti Column,
EPMD,
Barclay James Harvest,
Chrome,
Quadrant,
Amazonics,
Pere Ubu,
Tommy Roe,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.