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 Angola and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 spring reverb 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 Television to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All The Cowsills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Supertramp,
Livin' Joy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cheater Slicks,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ten City,
Scan 7,
Niagra,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gil Scott Heron,
Barry Ungar,
Al Stewart,
The Blackbyrds,
Warsaw,
Todd Rundgren,
Sister Nancy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Audionom,
Sexual Harrassment,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Invisible,
The Gories,
Fad Gadget,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Chris & Cosey,
Idris Muhammad,
The Skatalites,
Bootsy Collins,
JFA,
Circle Jerks,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Soft Machine,
The New Christs,
Erykah Badu,
Goldenarms,
Whodini,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Dorothy Ashby,
Cecil Taylor,
Jeff Mills,
Mary Jane Girls,
Arcadia,
Eric Dolphy,
Minny Pops,
Adolescents,
The Move,
Sandy B,
Leonard Cohen,
Matthew Halsall,
The Kinks,
The Slackers,
Skarface,
CMW,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Zero Boys,
Carl Craig,
Negative Approach,
Scratch Acid,
Black Bananas,
Au Pairs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bobby Sherman,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.