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 Ecuador and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Victims to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Litter. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Avey Tare,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Cluster,
The Count Five,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Siglo XX,
The Happenings,
Blake Baxter,
Cymande,
The Fuzztones,
The Five Americans,
the Slits,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Gladiators,
Morten Harket,
Rufus Thomas,
Donny Hathaway,
Tim Buckley,
Quando Quango,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Move,
David McCallum,
The Skatalites,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Monochrome Set,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Radiohead,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dead Boys,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ralphi Rosario,
Main Source,
the Human League,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Cramps,
Drexciya,
Groovy Waters,
Duran Duran,
Dawn Penn,
Gichy Dan,
The Associates,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Buckinghams,
Charles Mingus,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Stooges,
Marine Girls,
DJ Sneak,
Graham Central Station,
Judy Mowatt,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Slick Rick,
Derrick Morgan,
Hashim,
Stetsasonic,
KRS-One,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.