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 Kazakhstan and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Stockholm Monsters to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Alice Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joey Negro,
cv313,
Crash Course in Science,
10cc,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Modern Lovers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Throbbing Gristle,
Joe Smooth,
Mr. Review,
Curtis Mayfield,
Theoretical Girls,
Godley & Creme,
Mo-Dettes,
Sandy B,
Pantaleimon,
Sugar Minott,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
One Last Wish,
The Mojo Men,
the Human League,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lebanon Hanover,
Slave,
The Velvet Underground,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
David Axelrod,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eden Ahbez,
Yazoo,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Blancmange,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Symarip,
Massinfluence,
Sister Nancy,
Minutemen,
Peter & Gordon,
Heaven 17,
Harpers Bizarre,
Isaac Hayes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Spandau Ballet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Fuzztones,
Ossler,
Oblivians,
F. McDonald,
Soft Machine,
Marvin Gaye,
Dave Gahan,
Deadbeat,
Rapeman,
Dorothy Ashby,
The J.B.'s,
Ralphi Rosario,
Dead Boys,
Leonard Cohen,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.