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 Ethiopia and from Portland.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 synthesizer 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 10cc to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Masters at Work tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Detroit Cobras 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar 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 spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet 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?
The Leaves,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alice Coltrane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Prince Buster,
The Busters,
Zero Boys,
Buzzcocks,
Joy Division,
Erykah Badu,
Laurel Aitken,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sam Rivers,
kango's stein massive,
Graham Central Station,
Arcadia,
The Count Five,
The Mojo Men,
Toni Rubio,
Hot Snakes,
Soft Machine,
The Happenings,
DJ Sneak,
Terrestrial Tones,
Saccharine Trust,
MDC,
Jacques Brel,
Quantec,
Moby Grape,
John Holt,
Susan Cadogan,
Youth Brigade,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Masters at Work,
E-Dancer,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Faraquet,
The Smoke,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
John Foxx,
Morten Harket,
Marmalade,
Lou Christie,
Pere Ubu,
Technova,
Brick,
ABBA,
Underground Resistance,
PIL,
Jacob Miller,
Thompson Twins,
The Blackbyrds,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bob Dylan,
Hardrive,
David McCallum,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee.
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.