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 Mozambique and from Johannesburg.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Stooges to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nirvana,
Sixth Finger,
Cameo,
Q65,
kango's stein massive,
The Grass Roots,
Glenn Branca,
The Golliwogs,
Lindisfarne,
The Invisible,
The Real Kids,
The Smoke,
Harry Pussy,
Letta Mbulu,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ohio Players,
The Blackbyrds,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sonic Youth,
Monolake,
Michelle Simonal,
Howard Jones,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Zero Boys,
The Misunderstood,
Royal Trux,
Hot Snakes,
Wings,
the Association,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Divine Comedy,
Soul II Soul,
LL Cool J,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Funkadelic,
Prince Buster,
Gastr Del Sol,
Urselle,
Bill Wells,
Slave,
the Swans,
Godley & Creme,
Kaleidoscope,
Althea and Donna,
Sparks,
The Angels of Light,
The Neon Judgement,
The Offenders,
The Music Machine,
Robert Görl,
Excepter,
Grauzone,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bluetip,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.