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 Greece and from Spokane.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 rhodes 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 David McCallum to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Alison Limerick,
The Alarm Clocks,
Unrelated Segments,
Minny Pops,
DNA,
The Motions,
Kerri Chandler,
Althea and Donna,
The Toasters,
Barbara Tucker,
Archie Shepp,
Josef K,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Yazoo,
Con Funk Shun,
Stereo Dub,
The United States of America,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Zeros,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eli Mardock,
Sarah Menescal,
Circle Jerks,
Henry Cow,
The Gun Club,
Flash Fearless,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sun Ra,
Surgeon,
The Divine Comedy,
Skarface,
Scion,
ABC,
Arcadia,
ABBA,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Derrick May,
Joe Smooth,
the Human League,
the Normal,
Average White Band,
K-Klass,
Basic Channel,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Second Layer,
Arthur Verocai,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kevin Saunderson,
Brass Construction,
Bush Tetras,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ornette Coleman,
Vainqueur,
Saccharine Trust,
The New Christs,
Loose Ends,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Y Pants,
Eric B and Rakim,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.