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 Venezuela and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Quantec to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warsaw,
June Days,
Hasil Adkins,
Jacob Miller,
Los Fastidios,
Faust,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Desert Stars,
Aaron Thompson,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kas Product,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Remains,
Soul Sonic Force,
Swell Maps,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Jandek,
The New Christs,
Don Cherry,
Jimmy McGriff,
Nik Kershaw,
Echospace,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rotary Connection,
Make Up,
Peter & Gordon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
PIL,
Gang Starr,
Amon Düül,
The Gap Band,
Lou Reed,
The Beau Brummels,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lungfish,
Sugar Minott,
Agitation Free,
Ronnie Foster,
Bootsy Collins,
Rakim,
Flamin' Groovies,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Slits,
Barclay James Harvest,
Masters at Work,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Radiohead,
The Busters,
The Fall,
the Slits,
The Skatalites,
Jacques Brel,
Bizarre Inc.,
Roy Ayers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Moss Icon,
Zapp,
Siglo XX,
The Durutti Column,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pantytec,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.