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 Italy and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Talk Talk to the jazz 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 Marcia Griffiths. All the underground hits.
All 8 Eyed Spy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Fania All-Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 güiro and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
Quando Quango,
Funky Four + One,
Rapeman,
Chris Corsano,
Brass Construction,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lalann,
Unwound,
UT,
Cameo,
X-101,
Chrome,
Camouflage,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sparks,
The Young Rascals,
Joe Finger,
The Searchers,
Massinfluence,
Jeff Mills,
T.S.O.L.,
One Last Wish,
Tim Buckley,
Minutemen,
The Gladiators,
48th St. Collective,
The Moleskins,
Cheater Slicks,
Country Teasers,
The Durutti Column,
Morten Harket,
Ossler,
The Birthday Party,
Neil Young,
Marine Girls,
Desert Stars,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Crime,
The Residents,
Au Pairs,
Eddi Front,
Average White Band,
The Golliwogs,
DJ Sneak,
Darondo,
Robert Hood,
Wire,
The Fuzztones,
Rosa Yemen,
the Association,
the Sonics,
Swell Maps,
Little Man,
Erykah Badu,
Cecil Taylor,
Ultra Naté,
Interpol,
The J.B.'s,
Tomorrow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Con Funk Shun,
The Cosmic Jokers,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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.