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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Seoul.
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 Spokane and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Procol Harum to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
Danielle Patucci,
the Normal,
Japan,
Sällskapet,
Eli Mardock,
Faraquet,
Camberwell Now,
Jeru the Damaja,
Faust,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Schoolly D,
Guru Guru,
Juan Atkins,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Eric Dolphy,
Deadbeat,
Delta 5,
Severed Heads,
Suburban Knight,
Judy Mowatt,
Thompson Twins,
Lalo Schifrin,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kevin Saunderson,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Franke,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Boredoms,
Bang On A Can,
Hashim,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Johnny Clarke,
Gang Starr,
Infiniti,
Spandau Ballet,
Goldenarms,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Happenings,
Joe Finger,
the Sonics,
Todd Rundgren,
Section 25,
Unrelated Segments,
The Dave Clark Five,
Icehouse,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Cecil Taylor,
Leonard Cohen,
The Motions,
Drexciya,
FM Einheit,
the Swans,
Masters at Work,
The Blackbyrds,
Fugazi,
The Grass Roots,
Aswad,
Oneida,
The Gladiators,
Eric B and Rakim,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio.
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.