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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Mark Hollis to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Buzzcocks. All the underground hits.
All B.T. Express tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ultravox,
The Gap Band,
The Kinks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Remains,
Big Daddy Kane,
H. Thieme,
Yazoo,
The Vogues,
PIL,
Adolescents,
Jandek,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sonic Youth,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ice-T,
Aural Exciters,
Matthew Halsall,
Tim Buckley,
New Order,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter & Gordon,
Camouflage,
Cecil Taylor,
Iggy Pop,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Altered Images,
Suburban Knight,
Guru Guru,
Arcadia,
Reagan Youth,
Das Ding,
Schoolly D,
Black Moon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Steve Hackett,
Livin' Joy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bizarre Inc.,
T. Rex,
Scratch Acid,
Young Marble Giants,
Fela Kuti,
Minor Threat,
Faust,
Glambeats Corp.,
Janne Schatter,
Slick Rick,
Ludus,
The J.B.'s,
Barry Ungar,
The Blues Magoos,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Minny Pops,
Sällskapet,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Curtis Mayfield,
This Heat,
Girls At Our Best!,
Marc Almond,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.