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 Korea South and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tehran.
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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Echospace to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Soul II Soul,
Khruangbin,
Mary Jane Girls,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Echospace,
Depeche Mode,
Unwound,
Negative Approach,
Accadde A,
Godley & Creme,
The Fugs,
David McCallum,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Arcadia,
Lou Reed,
Excepter,
Sandy B,
The Beau Brummels,
Jacob Miller,
John Lydon,
The Grass Roots,
Suburban Knight,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Brick,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jeff Mills,
Lebanon Hanover,
Michelle Simonal,
Althea and Donna,
Stetsasonic,
Ponytail,
Matthew Bourne,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Stooges,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Supertramp,
The United States of America,
Young Marble Giants,
Gang Gang Dance,
Rosa Yemen,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Grandmaster Flash,
Niagra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crash Course in Science,
Metal Thangz,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sun City Girls,
The Slackers,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bill Wells,
Sister Nancy,
The Knickerbockers,
Ronnie Foster,
Wasted Youth,
the Slits,
Cluster,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.