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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Michelle Simonal to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Stiv Bators. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a T. Rex record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cal Tjader,
Mantronix,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Barrington Levy,
Fatback Band,
Ultravox,
Swans,
Nas,
Yusef Lateef,
Howard Jones,
Public Enemy,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Roxette,
Warren Ellis,
Joensuu 1685,
The Litter,
Aswad,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Selecter,
The Sonics,
Yaz,
Kayak,
KRS-One,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Trojans,
Pharoah Sanders,
Grandmaster Flash,
Monks,
Eyeless In Gaza,
UT,
The Slackers,
Brand Nubian,
Agitation Free,
The Real Kids,
the Normal,
The Stooges,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Model 500,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Busters,
Neu!,
The Electric Prunes,
the Swans,
Rosa Yemen,
The Buckinghams,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bob Dylan,
Quadrant,
Fort Wilson Riot,
World's Most,
Godley & Creme,
Mark Hollis,
James White and The Blacks,
Babytalk,
Scan 7,
Boz Scaggs,
Depeche Mode,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.