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 Iceland and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 rhodes 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 OOIOO to the punk 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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Neon Judgement,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jimmy McGriff,
The J.B.'s,
AZ,
Sparks,
Aloha Tigers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Mojo Men,
Maurizio,
Public Enemy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sam Rivers,
Spandau Ballet,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Doors,
Das Ding,
Derrick Morgan,
The Standells,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vladislav Delay,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ice-T,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lungfish,
Eric Dolphy,
Monolake,
The Last Poets,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sonic Youth,
Delta 5,
Outsiders,
Fat Boys,
Cluster,
Stiv Bators,
Roxette,
Sandy B,
Rotary Connection,
Whodini,
Juan Atkins,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Heaven 17,
Chrome,
UT,
The Electric Prunes,
Donald Byrd,
Hoover,
Roger Hodgson,
David Bowie,
The Cramps,
Ponytail,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Skaos,
10cc,
Banda Bassotti,
Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters.
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.