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 Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 PIL to the crunk 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 Detroit Cobras. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
Barclay James Harvest,
Morten Harket,
The Durutti Column,
Shuggie Otis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Sheep,
Hasil Adkins,
Arab on Radar,
Camouflage,
The Stooges,
Soul Sonic Force,
Easy Going,
Minutemen,
Au Pairs,
These Immortal Souls,
Talk Talk,
The Grass Roots,
Dennis Brown,
Pantytec,
The Fire Engines,
Grauzone,
Josef K,
Alison Limerick,
The Happenings,
AZ,
Lyres,
MDC,
Subhumans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Soulsonic Force,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tomorrow,
Delta 5,
Aswad,
Joe Finger,
F. McDonald,
Moby Grape,
The Red Krayola,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Black Pus,
Man Parrish,
Liliput,
Nirvana,
The Gories,
Nas,
Pere Ubu,
Curtis Mayfield,
Eden Ahbez,
Jimmy McGriff,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gregory Isaacs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Barrington Levy,
Barry Ungar,
Kaleidoscope,
Eve St. Jones,
Soul II Soul,
Deepchord,
Bad Manners,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.