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 Czech Republic and from Columbus.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Easy Going to the rock 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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
8 Eyed Spy,
Silicon Teens,
Bill Near,
Crash Course in Science,
Beasts of Bourbon,
CMW,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Goldenarms,
The New Christs,
Moss Icon,
Peter & Gordon,
Average White Band,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Human League,
The Pop Group,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ohio Players,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marc Almond,
Toni Rubio,
Deakin,
Arab on Radar,
Cluster,
Rosa Yemen,
X-Ray Spex,
Y Pants,
Eurythmics,
Sparks,
Nas,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Robert Görl,
Gichy Dan,
Roy Ayers,
Oblivians,
Mandrill,
Bang On A Can,
The Gun Club,
Nik Kershaw,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Skatalites,
Ornette Coleman,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lindisfarne,
Blossom Toes,
Subhumans,
MC5,
Derrick May,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Seeds,
Sex Pistols,
Mantronix,
The Gap Band,
Joensuu 1685,
Bobby Womack,
Lou Reed,
T.S.O.L.,
Half Japanese,
Colin Newman,
Black Bananas,
The Pretty Things,
John Holt,
Davy DMX,
Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia.
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.