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 Singapore and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Jeff Lynne to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scan 7 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 a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cecil Taylor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Sonic Youth,
Anthony Braxton,
The Skatalites,
Essential Logic,
Glenn Branca,
Todd Rundgren,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Monochrome Set,
The Buckinghams,
The Remains,
The Neon Judgement,
Spoonie Gee,
Babytalk,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Porter Ricks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Moss Icon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Rotary Connection,
David Bowie,
Soul Sonic Force,
Joensuu 1685,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scientists,
Danielle Patucci,
The Cowsills,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Cymande,
Masters at Work,
Cheater Slicks,
48th St. Collective,
Cal Tjader,
Mo-Dettes,
The Walker Brothers,
Half Japanese,
Godley & Creme,
Section 25,
JFA,
Easy Going,
Dual Sessions,
E-Dancer,
Lebanon Hanover,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Niagra,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Gun Club,
Pole,
The Dirtbombs,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Deakin,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Skriet,
Marmalade,
Jandek,
Minor Threat,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.