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 Argentina and from Taipei.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Ohio Players to the grunge 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Robert Hood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Aaron Thompson,
Jeff Mills,
Heaven 17,
Yazoo,
Blake Baxter,
Yusef Lateef,
In Retrospect,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scratch Acid,
ABC,
Section 25,
Amazonics,
Unwound,
AZ,
Fad Gadget,
Radiohead,
Guru Guru,
Donald Byrd,
Deadbeat,
Moss Icon,
The Selecter,
Pierre Henry,
Siglo XX,
Johnny Clarke,
Panda Bear,
The Last Poets,
Bobby Byrd,
Erasure,
Henry Cow,
Sarah Menescal,
L. Decosne,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pantaleimon,
Urselle,
FM Einheit,
Electric Prunes,
Bush Tetras,
Deakin,
Bobby Womack,
Matthew Halsall,
Joe Finger,
Smog,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
UT,
Arthur Verocai,
Crooked Eye,
Nirvana,
Dark Day,
Television,
Flamin' Groovies,
Danielle Patucci,
Fugazi,
June of 44,
Infiniti,
Metal Thangz,
Hoover,
Susan Cadogan,
D'Angelo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.