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 Gambia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 Fort Wilson Riot to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doors,
Sonic Youth,
Rites of Spring,
Pere Ubu,
The Electric Prunes,
UT,
Mo-Dettes,
Amon Düül,
Arthur Verocai,
Kaleidoscope,
Pole,
the Association,
Shuggie Otis,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lightning Bolt,
Hardrive,
ABC,
The Buckinghams,
The Modern Lovers,
Kas Product,
Radio Birdman,
Ultra Naté,
Fear,
Cheater Slicks,
Gabor Szabo,
Rotary Connection,
The Remains,
Minnie Riperton,
Nas,
Niagra,
The Beau Brummels,
D'Angelo,
The Raincoats,
Connie Case,
The Seeds,
Rekid,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Visage,
Deepchord,
Funkadelic,
Minor Threat,
The Move,
Andrew Hill,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Main Source,
Throbbing Gristle,
Jawbox,
Sam Rivers,
Marcia Griffiths,
Anthony Braxton,
Lakeside,
The Kinks,
Youth Brigade,
The Names,
Thompson Twins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.