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 Kuwait 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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the techno 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 Donald Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Mission of Burma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
The Last Poets,
Y Pants,
The Barracudas,
Harpers Bizarre,
Janne Schatter,
Kevin Saunderson,
Deakin,
The Move,
Maleditus Sound,
Bobby Sherman,
Pantytec,
The Real Kids,
Animal Collective,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Depeche Mode,
MC5,
Joensuu 1685,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Electric Prunes,
D'Angelo,
The Birthday Party,
Von Mondo,
Marmalade,
Saccharine Trust,
The Human League,
Magazine,
Jawbox,
Joey Negro,
Gregory Isaacs,
Talk Talk,
the Normal,
Mr. Review,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cluster,
Skarface,
Crispian St. Peters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scientists,
Gichy Dan,
X-101,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Flash Fearless,
The Knickerbockers,
Peter & Gordon,
Hashim,
The Fire Engines,
Jimmy McGriff,
Scion,
Roxette,
Carl Craig,
Chris & Cosey,
Nils Olav,
Franke,
Dawn Penn,
The Mummies,
Make Up,
Pagans,
Spandau Ballet,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Standells,
Soulsonic Force,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.