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 Iraq and from Salvador.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 sitar 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 Nas 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Bar-Kays record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Deadbeat,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Black Moon,
Pylon,
Patti Smith,
Isaac Hayes,
Bill Near,
Massinfluence,
Groovy Waters,
Yaz,
The Flesh Eaters,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Henry Cow,
Pantaleimon,
Buzzcocks,
The Victims,
Camberwell Now,
Minor Threat,
Robert Hood,
Chrome,
The Misunderstood,
Hot Snakes,
Fatback Band,
Barbara Tucker,
Technova,
The Pop Group,
Rapeman,
Lightning Bolt,
One Last Wish,
the Soft Cell,
Sarah Menescal,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Leonard Cohen,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Doors,
Aaron Thompson,
Rosa Yemen,
Soft Machine,
The Evens,
Lucky Dragons,
Fugazi,
Rekid,
Nation of Ulysses,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ohio Players,
Barry Ungar,
Swans,
Khruangbin,
FM Einheit,
Bad Manners,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Donny Hathaway,
The Moody Blues,
The Fugs,
Anakelly,
Scion,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Agitation Free,
Jacob Miller,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.