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 Finland and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Tom Verlaine 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 The Victims to the jazz 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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Martian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
DJ Sneak,
Chris Corsano,
Massinfluence,
Fela Kuti,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ultra Naté,
Dark Day,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Cure,
Arcadia,
The Motions,
Monks,
X-102,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Electric Prunes,
Scan 7,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Thompson Twins,
Josef K,
Rod Modell,
the Normal,
China Crisis,
Television,
Leonard Cohen,
Soft Cell,
Country Teasers,
Junior Murvin,
LL Cool J,
Mars,
Bronski Beat,
D'Angelo,
Shuggie Otis,
World's Most,
Archie Shepp,
Simply Red,
Gregory Isaacs,
Glambeats Corp.,
Max Romeo,
The Knickerbockers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Talk Talk,
Lightning Bolt,
DJ Style,
Roxy Music,
Boogie Down Productions,
Anthony Braxton,
Fatback Band,
The Fuzztones,
The Buckinghams,
Oneida,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sandy B,
Inner City,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Susan Cadogan,
Metal Thangz,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ice-T,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.