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 Cape Verde and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Robert Hood to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Charles Mingus. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep 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 techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Dirtbombs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Throbbing Gristle,
Trumans Water,
Albert Ayler,
Alison Limerick,
Bluetip,
D'Angelo,
Jandek,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Aural Exciters,
The Trojans,
Todd Terry,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Andrew Hill,
Blake Baxter,
Bizarre Inc.,
K-Klass,
John Coltrane,
Unrelated Segments,
Kas Product,
Mad Mike,
Drexciya,
Liliput,
Jawbox,
Pharoah Sanders,
Moby Grape,
Bush Tetras,
Pantaleimon,
The Shadows of Knight,
In Retrospect,
Stereo Dub,
Gang Gang Dance,
Idris Muhammad,
Schoolly D,
Gil Scott Heron,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Althea and Donna,
Lower 48,
Hasil Adkins,
Maurizio,
Suicide,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Cameo,
The Neon Judgement,
T.S.O.L.,
Be Bop Deluxe,
EPMD,
the Association,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Mummies,
The Litter,
Television,
Brand Nubian,
Das Ding,
Livin' Joy,
10cc,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Fela Kuti,
Neu!,
The Sonics,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.