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 the UAE and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sexual Harrassment,
Con Funk Shun,
The Barracudas,
The Martian,
The Angels of Light,
Frankie Knuckles,
Michelle Simonal,
Erykah Badu,
Todd Terry,
Scan 7,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Easy Going,
The Gun Club,
Johnny Clarke,
The Vogues,
Ultra Naté,
Morten Harket,
Yaz,
Skarface,
Basic Channel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Buzzcocks,
Dave Gahan,
The Tremeloes,
X-Ray Spex,
The Moleskins,
The Moody Blues,
The Dirtbombs,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Evens,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
10cc,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lyres,
Black Moon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bauhaus,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Technova,
Interpol,
Youth Brigade,
X-102,
Gang of Four,
Patti Smith,
The New Christs,
Alison Limerick,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Slits,
Isaac Hayes,
James White and The Blacks,
Pantaleimon,
Tommy Roe,
Iggy Pop,
Mars,
Pagans,
Steve Hackett,
Swans,
The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things.
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.