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 Mongolia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manila.
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 guitar 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the rap 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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
The Martian,
The Remains,
Royal Trux,
The Black Dice,
Young Marble Giants,
Jacob Miller,
Donald Byrd,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lucky Dragons,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gichy Dan,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bush Tetras,
Simply Red,
Roy Ayers,
Liliput,
Boogie Down Productions,
Grandmaster Flash,
Organ,
Mantronix,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Cybotron,
Rekid,
Lalann,
Dark Day,
The Monochrome Set,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kurtis Blow,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pere Ubu,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Quando Quango,
Letta Mbulu,
James White and The Blacks,
Inner City,
Dawn Penn,
the Sonics,
Nico,
Terrestrial Tones,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mars,
Joyce Sims,
Flamin' Groovies,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Glenn Branca,
John Lydon,
The Star Department,
CMW,
John Holt,
The Grass Roots,
Dual Sessions,
Babytalk,
Roxy Music,
Hashim,
10cc,
Heaven 17,
Delta 5,
Pole,
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow.
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.