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 Mauritania and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Banda Bassotti,
The Grass Roots,
Lower 48,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pylon,
Funky Four + One,
The Offenders,
The Gun Club,
Pere Ubu,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Fuzztones,
David McCallum,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Roy Ayers,
Derrick Morgan,
John Holt,
Connie Case,
Freddie Wadling,
Television,
David Bowie,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Radiohead,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cameo,
Crime,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Martian,
The Count Five,
Jacques Brel,
Excepter,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Shoche,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rod Modell,
The Names,
Vladislav Delay,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Animal Collective,
Rhythm & Sound,
AZ,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Negative Approach,
Intrusion,
R.M.O.,
Kas Product,
Eden Ahbez,
The Last Poets,
Lou Reed,
Icehouse,
Fluxion,
Moby Grape,
Harry Pussy,
Bobby Byrd,
The Divine Comedy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Doobie Brothers,
Severed Heads,
Drexciya,
Kurtis Blow,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Agent Orange,
Kerrie Biddell,
Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar.
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.