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 Cameroon and from Woodstock.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lagos.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba 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 Jandek to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mummies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dawn Penn record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
Fear,
New Age Steppers,
Avey Tare,
Peter & Gordon,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Minny Pops,
John Lydon,
Black Bananas,
Supertramp,
Black Pus,
Zapp,
Delon & Dalcan,
Royal Trux,
The Slits,
Half Japanese,
Sarah Menescal,
The Stooges,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
the Sonics,
The Litter,
Zero Boys,
Soul II Soul,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Moss Icon,
Rapeman,
Whodini,
Juan Atkins,
kango's stein massive,
Echospace,
Sonny Sharrock,
Niagra,
Technova,
cv313,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ultra Naté,
Masters at Work,
Marc Almond,
The J.B.'s,
Glambeats Corp.,
Flipper,
David McCallum,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Colin Newman,
Brass Construction,
The Selecter,
The Doobie Brothers,
Cameo,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Monochrome Set,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Marshall Jefferson,
Alice Coltrane,
Essential Logic,
Lucky Dragons,
Laurel Aitken,
Icehouse,
Inner City,
Interpol,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.