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 Mozambique and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Brass Construction to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drexciya record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultimate Spinach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
The Mojo Men,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Monochrome Set,
The Last Poets,
X-102,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Technova,
David Bowie,
Loose Ends,
The Fuzztones,
Erykah Badu,
Michelle Simonal,
The Durutti Column,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Gun Club,
Quando Quango,
Section 25,
Gang Starr,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Deepchord,
Altered Images,
Neu!,
Country Teasers,
The Doors,
Ice-T,
The Fugs,
the Germs,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Tubeway Army,
Rhythm & Sound,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Yazoo,
Iggy Pop,
Liliput,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Human League,
Albert Ayler,
Magma,
Agitation Free,
Soulsonic Force,
Mars,
Sonic Youth,
The Grass Roots,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Joy Division,
the Sonics,
Gang Green,
Infiniti,
Neil Young,
Spoonie Gee,
Davy DMX,
10cc,
Groovy Waters,
The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators.
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.