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 Burundi and from Tokyo.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Saccharine Trust to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Neon Judgement. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool G Rap & DJ Polo 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Neon Judgement,
Adolescents,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Raincoats,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bush Tetras,
Ultimate Spinach,
Terry Callier,
DNA,
Brass Construction,
China Crisis,
Grey Daturas,
The Dead C,
Hashim,
Eden Ahbez,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Fugs,
The Blackbyrds,
Visage,
Stiv Bators,
Delta 5,
Thompson Twins,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rod Modell,
The Doors,
Flamin' Groovies,
Von Mondo,
Popol Vuh,
Joey Negro,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Reuben Wilson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Quantec,
Soul Sonic Force,
Blake Baxter,
The Five Americans,
Theoretical Girls,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
June Days,
the Slits,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kerrie Biddell,
Throbbing Gristle,
Judy Mowatt,
Bill Near,
Subhumans,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Khruangbin,
Lyres,
Echospace,
The Golliwogs,
Connie Case,
Q65,
Depeche Mode,
Bobby Byrd,
Black Sheep,
Arcadia,
Sly & The Family Stone,
John Cale,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.