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 Lebanon and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Con Funk Shun to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Suicide tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur 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?
The Evens,
Connie Case,
Avey Tare,
Ohio Players,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bill Wells,
Scan 7,
Visage,
Ludus,
The Gap Band,
Dave Gahan,
Kaleidoscope,
Sparks,
Q65,
John Lydon,
Eden Ahbez,
The Fire Engines,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Monolake,
Ralphi Rosario,
Grey Daturas,
Nirvana,
Electric Prunes,
Stereo Dub,
Darondo,
The Doors,
Barry Ungar,
Erasure,
Theoretical Girls,
The American Breed,
Bill Near,
Faraquet,
Panda Bear,
H. Thieme,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eurythmics,
Hot Snakes,
The Neon Judgement,
The Young Rascals,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Funky Four + One,
Morten Harket,
Japan,
Soul II Soul,
Cameo,
Lakeside,
Bizarre Inc.,
Guru Guru,
Sound Behaviour,
Silicon Teens,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Zapp,
Mad Mike,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Suburban Knight,
Dark Day,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Flipper,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Junior Murvin,
Jeff Mills,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.