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 Kiribati and from Taipei.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the marimba 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 The Dave Clark Five to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
DJ Sneak,
Von Mondo,
Roxy Music,
Visage,
X-102,
Wally Richardson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Skatalites,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Soulsonic Force,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
CMW,
Dawn Penn,
OOIOO,
Neil Young,
Brick,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gong,
Heaven 17,
Bobby Byrd,
Metal Thangz,
Rakim,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Index,
Tres Demented,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Wake,
Aaron Thompson,
The Leaves,
Prince Buster,
Zapp,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ultra Naté,
Jawbox,
The Red Krayola,
Jeff Mills,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fela Kuti,
Talk Talk,
UT,
The Cure,
Angry Samoans,
Crooked Eye,
Underground Resistance,
Kurtis Blow,
H. Thieme,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Seeds,
Bobby Sherman,
Excepter,
Intrusion,
Model 500,
Blancmange,
Chrome,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Remains,
June of 44,
Index,
Dual Sessions,
U.S. Maple,
Kenny Larkin,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.