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 Senegal and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 oboe 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 The Human League to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Country Teasers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Sunsets and Hearts,
New York Dolls,
The Fall,
The Dirtbombs,
Basic Channel,
Wolf Eyes,
Glenn Branca,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gang Starr,
E-Dancer,
Prince Buster,
CMW,
Kas Product,
Avey Tare,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bill Near,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pantaleimon,
Darondo,
Blossom Toes,
The Invisible,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Anakelly,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The United States of America,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Sound,
Swans,
Groovy Waters,
L. Decosne,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Johnny Clarke,
Spandau Ballet,
Fatback Band,
Circle Jerks,
The Busters,
Cymande,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Liliput,
Nik Kershaw,
UT,
B.T. Express,
Lalo Schifrin,
Underground Resistance,
Severed Heads,
Ornette Coleman,
Section 25,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Soul II Soul,
Pole,
Magma,
Ludus,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Electric Prunes,
OOIOO,
Yaz,
Oblivians,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Schoolly D,
John Holt,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.