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 Tajikistan and from Manila.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Slick Rick to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists 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 clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Pop Group,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Junior Murvin,
The Zeros,
The Seeds,
Porter Ricks,
Silicon Teens,
The Sound,
Ken Boothe,
Lucky Dragons,
Inner City,
Aswad,
PIL,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Traffic Nightmare,
Yazoo,
Urselle,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dawn Penn,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Half Japanese,
Fela Kuti,
Deepchord,
Sight & Sound,
Skriet,
Quantec,
Massinfluence,
Heaven 17,
Fugazi,
F. McDonald,
Shuggie Otis,
Laurel Aitken,
Nas,
The Barracudas,
KRS-One,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Evens,
Al Stewart,
Mo-Dettes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Franke,
Symarip,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Mandrill,
Eden Ahbez,
The Slits,
D'Angelo,
Infiniti,
The Blackbyrds,
Fear,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Anakelly,
Bobby Byrd,
Minor Threat,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.