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 Sweden and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 mellotron 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 Maleditus Sound to the jazz 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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All The Peanut Butter Conspiracy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bob Dylan,
Sparks,
Joy Division,
The Zeros,
The Sound,
Tommy Roe,
Wire,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Godley & Creme,
Scion,
T.S.O.L.,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Barracudas,
Bizarre Inc.,
Skarface,
Byron Stingily,
The Monochrome Set,
Funkadelic,
The Martian,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The J.B.'s,
Joyce Sims,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Wasted Youth,
Symarip,
Sun Ra,
R.M.O.,
The Modern Lovers,
The Dirtbombs,
The Leaves,
KRS-One,
David Bowie,
The Music Machine,
Cal Tjader,
Jacob Miller,
Mantronix,
Kool Moe Dee,
Vainqueur,
Connie Case,
This Heat,
Gang Gang Dance,
Todd Terry,
Joe Finger,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Swell Maps,
Wings,
Gabor Szabo,
Nirvana,
The Selecter,
Suburban Knight,
The Names,
Aswad,
F. McDonald,
Black Moon,
New Age Steppers,
Stereo Dub,
Delta 5,
Albert Ayler,
ABC,
Intrusion,
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.