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 Iraq and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Starr 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Shuggie Otis,
Warsaw,
Derrick May,
Andrew Hill,
Pierre Henry,
Charles Mingus,
Todd Terry,
Jeff Mills,
Quantec,
Soul II Soul,
Sun Ra,
Jesper Dahlback,
Piero Umiliani,
The Smoke,
Talk Talk,
Sex Pistols,
Popol Vuh,
Arcadia,
Vladislav Delay,
T.S.O.L.,
World's Most,
Groovy Waters,
Suicide,
The Gun Club,
The Five Americans,
Black Flag,
Public Enemy,
Spoonie Gee,
Thompson Twins,
This Heat,
the Germs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scott Walker,
Alton Ellis,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Eden Ahbez,
David McCallum,
The Remains,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Amon Düül II,
Eric B and Rakim,
Qualms,
Unrelated Segments,
The Red Krayola,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Black Dice,
LL Cool J,
The Victims,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cymande,
Lucky Dragons,
Radiohead,
Rites of Spring,
B.T. Express,
Brick,
Camouflage,
Man Parrish,
The Human League,
Eurythmics, Eurythmics, Eurythmics, Eurythmics.
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.