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 China and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Fad Gadget 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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Laurel Aitken record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
The Litter,
Peter and Kerry,
Robert Hood,
Lucky Dragons,
Bobbi Humphrey,
David Bowie,
The Vogues,
Sonic Youth,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Deakin,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dave Gahan,
Drexciya,
Can,
Matthew Halsall,
Brand Nubian,
Eric Dolphy,
Radiopuhelimet,
Talk Talk,
Harry Pussy,
Blancmange,
John Foxx,
Absolute Body Control,
The Dead C,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The United States of America,
The New Christs,
Electric Prunes,
The Beau Brummels,
Parry Music,
The Invisible,
The Durutti Column,
Jeff Mills,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wire,
Scan 7,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Groovy Waters,
CMW,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Oneida,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
FM Einheit,
Thee Headcoats,
Bronski Beat,
Stereo Dub,
Neu!,
Los Fastidios,
Arcadia,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tom Boy,
Lakeside,
The Modern Lovers,
Clear Light,
Sexual Harrassment,
Delta 5,
The Standells,
MDC,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.