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 Guinea and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 theremin 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 Anthony Braxton to the dance 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All The Blues Magoos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blake Baxter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Gong,
Eli Mardock,
E-Dancer,
Marcia Griffiths,
Echospace,
Sonny Sharrock,
JFA,
Peter and Kerry,
Fear,
David McCallum,
June of 44,
These Immortal Souls,
The Count Five,
Second Layer,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Motions,
cv313,
Crispy Ambulance,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Scrapy,
Oblivians,
Vladislav Delay,
MDC,
Pole,
Bang On A Can,
Chris Corsano,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Supertramp,
James White and The Blacks,
F. McDonald,
Popol Vuh,
T.S.O.L.,
Sugar Minott,
Public Image Ltd.,
Depeche Mode,
Gang Green,
Roxy Music,
Radiohead,
The Angels of Light,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Pretty Things,
Neu!,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Seeds,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Monolake,
The Knickerbockers,
The Velvet Underground,
The Modern Lovers,
DJ Style,
Joey Negro,
Magma,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Moody Blues,
Desert Stars,
Flash Fearless,
Anakelly,
Josef K,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Tres Demented,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.