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 Colombia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 cv313 to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Residents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Boz Scaggs,
The Dirtbombs,
Mo-Dettes,
Pharoah Sanders,
Moss Icon,
Gichy Dan,
James Chance & The Contortions,
X-Ray Spex,
World's Most,
Underground Resistance,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Boogie Down Productions,
Robert Wyatt,
Wire,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Country Teasers,
Bang On A Can,
Y Pants,
The Divine Comedy,
the Soft Cell,
Rotary Connection,
The Cure,
Josef K,
Black Bananas,
The Remains,
The Modern Lovers,
Kaleidoscope,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Donny Hathaway,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Neu!,
Eddi Front,
Lower 48,
Technova,
Davy DMX,
The Evens,
Japan,
Stereo Dub,
Banda Bassotti,
Yellowson,
Bluetip,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
D'Angelo,
Black Moon,
Skarface,
Hot Snakes,
Yusef Lateef,
The Shadows of Knight,
Crispian St. Peters,
Drive Like Jehu,
Nick Fraelich,
Soft Cell,
Icehouse,
Khruangbin,
Pylon,
MC5,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Sherman,
Desert Stars,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.