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 China and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Deadbeat to the dance 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 Bobby Womack. All the underground hits.
All The American Breed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slick Rick,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pantytec,
Guru Guru,
Tubeway Army,
Wasted Youth,
Warsaw,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Youth Brigade,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Interpol,
The Residents,
The Names,
The Fugs,
The Music Machine,
Bang On A Can,
Steve Hackett,
Glenn Branca,
Deakin,
Ten City,
Lou Reed,
Leonard Cohen,
Dark Day,
Alice Coltrane,
Yusef Lateef,
The Slits,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Electric Prunes,
Lakeside,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Johnny Clarke,
Main Source,
Nas,
Archie Shepp,
Buzzcocks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joey Negro,
The Toasters,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Unrelated Segments,
Public Enemy,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Al Stewart,
One Last Wish,
Cal Tjader,
Pole,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Cure,
The Motions,
Mantronix,
DJ Sneak,
Procol Harum,
Scott Walker,
FM Einheit,
Yaz,
Amon Düül II,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Litter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.