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 Austria and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Woodstock.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sixth Finger to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Man Parrish,
Dennis Brown,
Crash Course in Science,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Happenings,
The New Christs,
Youth Brigade,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bauhaus,
The Doors,
The Mummies,
Ossler,
Talk Talk,
Delta 5,
Negative Approach,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
EPMD,
Inner City,
Television Personalities,
Letta Mbulu,
U.S. Maple,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Michelle Simonal,
The Gap Band,
Gichy Dan,
Kool Moe Dee,
Skaos,
The Buckinghams,
Erasure,
Babytalk,
The Red Krayola,
Bobby Womack,
the Bar-Kays,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
These Immortal Souls,
Rod Modell,
Moss Icon,
Amon Düül,
Swans,
The Trojans,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Standells,
Harry Pussy,
Gil Scott Heron,
Niagra,
Rufus Thomas,
Parry Music,
One Last Wish,
Barrington Levy,
Cybotron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Steve Hackett,
Yellowson,
La Düsseldorf,
Reagan Youth,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sällskapet,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.