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 Kuwait and from Toronto.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Black Dice to the rap 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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The United States of America record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Section 25,
Reagan Youth,
Sam Rivers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Monks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Trojans,
Deadbeat,
The Durutti Column,
Mission of Burma,
Altered Images,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dennis Brown,
Terrestrial Tones,
Eric Dolphy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Golliwogs,
Crash Course in Science,
Zapp,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Toni Rubio,
Blancmange,
Tres Demented,
Camberwell Now,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Barracudas,
The Knickerbockers,
The Techniques,
Isaac Hayes,
Reuben Wilson,
D'Angelo,
Little Man,
Deepchord,
The J.B.'s,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Youth Brigade,
The Gun Club,
Joensuu 1685,
Byron Stingily,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Depeche Mode,
Chris & Cosey,
Neil Young,
Alton Ellis,
Ponytail,
Yusef Lateef,
Jacob Miller,
Bill Wells,
New Order,
Magma,
Funky Four + One,
Lalo Schifrin,
Marine Girls,
The Offenders,
June Days,
Mad Mike,
Wasted Youth,
The Standells,
Erasure,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
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.