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 Iraq and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 One Last Wish to the grunge 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gong,
Byron Stingily,
Average White Band,
H. Thieme,
Gichy Dan,
The Moleskins,
Jimmy McGriff,
Magazine,
Massinfluence,
Neil Young,
Laurel Aitken,
Kas Product,
ABC,
Deepchord,
Cecil Taylor,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Marine Girls,
Jacob Miller,
The Busters,
Junior Murvin,
The Index,
Von Mondo,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Malaria!,
Hoover,
Gang of Four,
The American Breed,
Gabor Szabo,
Colin Newman,
Pylon,
Mr. Review,
Whodini,
Lucky Dragons,
Iggy Pop,
Pulsallama,
Connie Case,
Blake Baxter,
Half Japanese,
Harpers Bizarre,
Pantaleimon,
Little Man,
Bush Tetras,
The Cure,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Slits,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Standells,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sight & Sound,
Vladislav Delay,
The Star Department,
Mandrill,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
OOIOO,
Severed Heads,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth.
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.