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 Albania and from Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Toronto.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Wings to the jazz 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 The Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echo & the Bunnymen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crime,
Goldenarms,
Fear,
Sun City Girls,
Marshall Jefferson,
DJ Sneak,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bill Wells,
The Victims,
Judy Mowatt,
Lou Christie,
Surgeon,
Lalann,
Gichy Dan,
Malaria!,
Kool Moe Dee,
Nik Kershaw,
Matthew Halsall,
T.S.O.L.,
Buzzcocks,
Scan 7,
Eden Ahbez,
Brick,
Patti Smith,
Barbara Tucker,
Althea and Donna,
10cc,
Charles Mingus,
Unrelated Segments,
New Order,
X-Ray Spex,
The Raincoats,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Brothers Johnson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joy Division,
Inner City,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Max Romeo,
The United States of America,
Tom Boy,
Mo-Dettes,
Jacob Miller,
Robert Hood,
Jeru the Damaja,
Excepter,
Funky Four + One,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
H. Thieme,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Oblivians,
Letta Mbulu,
Blossom Toes,
Talk Talk,
Section 25,
Ossler,
Outsiders,
ABBA,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sun Ra,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.