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 Rwanda and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 K-Klass to the electroclash 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DNA,
Piero Umiliani,
Franke,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Selecter,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Cale,
Cybotron,
Clear Light,
Flash Fearless,
Schoolly D,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Minor Threat,
The Gap Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Busters,
Dual Sessions,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jesper Dahlback,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Niagra,
Banda Bassotti,
Mars,
Grandmaster Flash,
Shoche,
Japan,
kango's stein massive,
The Moody Blues,
The Saints,
Masters at Work,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Modern Lovers,
The Wake,
Subhumans,
Glenn Branca,
China Crisis,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Popol Vuh,
Angry Samoans,
Arthur Verocai,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eric Dolphy,
The Five Americans,
The Seeds,
Sex Pistols,
the Swans,
Tomorrow,
The Flesh Eaters,
Average White Band,
Altered Images,
Peter and Kerry,
Deepchord,
Stereo Dub,
Yazoo,
The Black Dice,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Hoover,
E-Dancer,
The Victims, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims.
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.