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 Suriname and from Cairo.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Quando Quango to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tommy Roe,
Fad Gadget,
Stereo Dub,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Agitation Free,
The Wake,
The Birthday Party,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Janne Schatter,
Bad Manners,
Jeff Lynne,
The Residents,
The Stooges,
Pussy Galore,
Outsiders,
Colin Newman,
Reagan Youth,
Dark Day,
Fatback Band,
Lou Christie,
Second Layer,
Darondo,
Funkadelic,
Glenn Branca,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Motions,
Bush Tetras,
The Buckinghams,
Fela Kuti,
Gil Scott Heron,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bluetip,
Tom Boy,
The J.B.'s,
Magma,
Camouflage,
The Sound,
Japan,
Schoolly D,
Masters at Work,
Neu!,
Soul II Soul,
Fear,
Royal Trux,
Terry Callier,
The Electric Prunes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Gladiators,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Real Kids,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Erykah Badu,
Pantaleimon,
Audionom,
Subhumans,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.