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 Swaziland and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the electroclash 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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
The Moleskins,
Mars,
Second Layer,
The Trojans,
Rites of Spring,
Neu!,
Sight & Sound,
Darondo,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ralphi Rosario,
Dark Day,
Lower 48,
Kerri Chandler,
Brass Construction,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barrington Levy,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nick Fraelich,
Dave Gahan,
Crash Course in Science,
Subhumans,
Electric Prunes,
The Raincoats,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Leonard Cohen,
Country Teasers,
Saccharine Trust,
Carl Craig,
The Gories,
Excepter,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Popol Vuh,
James White and The Blacks,
Eric B and Rakim,
Underground Resistance,
Boredoms,
Sound Behaviour,
Alison Limerick,
Magma,
Connie Case,
Cymande,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ten City,
Goldenarms,
Ossler,
Eric Dolphy,
Japan,
Amazonics,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Stereo Dub,
Cybotron,
ABC,
Scratch Acid,
The Wake,
Intrusion,
Agitation Free,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camouflage,
Television Personalities,
Blake Baxter,
Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon.
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.