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 Marshall Islands and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Paris.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Arcadia to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Eden Ahbez,
Todd Rundgren,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Metal Thangz,
EPMD,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The New Christs,
The Mojo Men,
Judy Mowatt,
Rakim,
Althea and Donna,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pharoah Sanders,
Goldenarms,
The Human League,
Absolute Body Control,
Adolescents,
Roy Ayers,
The Saints,
Howard Jones,
David Axelrod,
David Bowie,
Lou Reed,
Bobby Byrd,
Urselle,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marvin Gaye,
Sexual Harrassment,
Danielle Patucci,
Iggy Pop,
Jandek,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gang Starr,
Lower 48,
Morten Harket,
Japan,
John Cale,
Deepchord,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Zapp,
Ronnie Foster,
The Grass Roots,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Siglo XX,
Andrew Hill,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ultra Naté,
Joe Smooth,
Subhumans,
Dark Day,
Bob Dylan,
Lightning Bolt,
Crooked Eye,
The Residents,
Yaz,
Underground Resistance,
The Five Americans,
Index, Index, Index, Index.
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.