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 Uruguay and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 theremin 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a World's Most record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Slick Rick,
The Happenings,
Boz Scaggs,
In Retrospect,
The Monochrome Set,
Erasure,
Accadde A,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lucky Dragons,
The Litter,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Todd Terry,
The Gap Band,
Depeche Mode,
The Fortunes,
Lower 48,
Nation of Ulysses,
Marc Almond,
Jimmy McGriff,
LL Cool J,
Crispian St. Peters,
Subhumans,
Eric B and Rakim,
Angry Samoans,
H. Thieme,
John Cale,
Junior Murvin,
Mad Mike,
Lou Christie,
Visage,
The Last Poets,
Cymande,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Underground Resistance,
Minnie Riperton,
The Techniques,
Half Japanese,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Q and Not U,
Donny Hathaway,
Suicide,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lalann,
Swans,
Newcleus,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Radiopuhelimet,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chris Corsano,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Monks,
Robert Hood,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ponytail,
the Soft Cell,
Model 500,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Grey Daturas,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.