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 Italy and from Jakarta.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Ronnie Foster to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Litter. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tom Boy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lightning Bolt,
Jesper Dahlback,
Amazonics,
DNA,
Public Image Ltd.,
R.M.O.,
Skarface,
Albert Ayler,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nick Fraelich,
Pantaleimon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Minnie Riperton,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang of Four,
Ponytail,
Public Enemy,
Babytalk,
Subhumans,
Japan,
The Move,
Minutemen,
Tres Demented,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Max Romeo,
Sister Nancy,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Black Dice,
Roxy Music,
Todd Rundgren,
the Slits,
Alton Ellis,
Eddi Front,
The Standells,
The Gap Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Fatback Band,
Chris & Cosey,
Tropical Tobacco,
Absolute Body Control,
Arcadia,
Index,
Chris Corsano,
Pet Shop Boys,
Isaac Hayes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Morten Harket,
Young Marble Giants,
the Bar-Kays,
The Gun Club,
The Martian,
Au Pairs,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Avey Tare,
The Saints,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Juan Atkins,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.