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 Kenya and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Scion to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fad Gadget,
Essential Logic,
Reuben Wilson,
Kas Product,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Derrick May,
Wings,
The Walker Brothers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Silicon Teens,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Moody Blues,
Glenn Branca,
X-102,
Stiv Bators,
The Star Department,
Peter & Gordon,
Dennis Brown,
The American Breed,
Bluetip,
Arthur Verocai,
Cluster,
Joe Finger,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Standells,
Joy Division,
Donny Hathaway,
The J.B.'s,
Siglo XX,
Dead Boys,
Roy Ayers,
The United States of America,
Ponytail,
Los Fastidios,
Cal Tjader,
Chris & Cosey,
Nick Fraelich,
Althea and Donna,
Byron Stingily,
Grey Daturas,
Sugar Minott,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sandy B,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Carl Craig,
Sonic Youth,
Scientists,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sixth Finger,
Fluxion,
Hasil Adkins,
Suburban Knight,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pere Ubu,
Godley & Creme,
The Wake,
Anakelly,
The Searchers,
Maleditus Sound,
The Toasters,
a-ha,
Faust,
The Blues Magoos,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.