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 Solomon Islands and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bill Near to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Evens. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Goldenarms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
E-Dancer,
Marc Almond,
Michelle Simonal,
Eric Dolphy,
Sex Pistols,
Bluetip,
Lalo Schifrin,
Agitation Free,
Vladislav Delay,
Eden Ahbez,
Gil Scott Heron,
OOIOO,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Skaos,
Brass Construction,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rekid,
Josef K,
Parry Music,
The Names,
Pulsallama,
Nick Fraelich,
Gang Gang Dance,
Danielle Patucci,
Lakeside,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ronan,
Bill Near,
The Star Department,
The Monks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Wake,
Joey Negro,
Chris & Cosey,
The Last Poets,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Human League,
cv313,
The Busters,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Gories,
Marine Girls,
Swans,
Cluster,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Max Romeo,
Deepchord,
Todd Rundgren,
Andrew Hill,
Sam Rivers,
D'Angelo,
Glambeats Corp.,
Iggy Pop,
Warsaw,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Outsiders,
Steve Hackett,
Jesper Dahlback,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.