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 Antigua and from Manchester.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 808 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 Cheater Slicks to the techno 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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Nik Kershaw,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Arthur Verocai,
Can,
Spoonie Gee,
The Residents,
Black Sheep,
Unrelated Segments,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Johnny Osbourne,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Theoretical Girls,
Ponytail,
The Black Dice,
Drexciya,
Spandau Ballet,
Silicon Teens,
China Crisis,
DNA,
The Gun Club,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Donald Byrd,
Jeff Lynne,
Delon & Dalcan,
Alton Ellis,
Yellowson,
The Moleskins,
The Skatalites,
Sister Nancy,
Hasil Adkins,
Harry Pussy,
Lakeside,
Freddie Wadling,
June Days,
Japan,
Kaleidoscope,
Lyres,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Electric Prunes,
The Dave Clark Five,
Isaac Hayes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Joyce Sims,
Icehouse,
The J.B.'s,
K-Klass,
Boredoms,
Swell Maps,
The Fall,
The Pop Group,
Lebanon Hanover,
a-ha,
A Certain Ratio,
Visage,
Maurizio,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.