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 Peru and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Wolf Eyes to the grunge 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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rufus Thomas,
Patti Smith,
ABBA,
AZ,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Glambeats Corp.,
Joe Smooth,
Blancmange,
Accadde A,
Piero Umiliani,
Hoover,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Black Dice,
Agent Orange,
Brand Nubian,
Organ,
X-Ray Spex,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Names,
Absolute Body Control,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lightning Bolt,
Minnie Riperton,
Big Daddy Kane,
PIL,
The Blackbyrds,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Invisible,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Spandau Ballet,
Prince Buster,
Qualms,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Duran Duran,
Andrew Hill,
Dawn Penn,
Tears for Fears,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Marvin Gaye,
The Evens,
ABC,
Reuben Wilson,
Roger Hodgson,
Funkadelic,
Whodini,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ultra Naté,
Sixth Finger,
X-101,
Pylon,
Lalann,
The Golliwogs,
Ossler,
48th St. Collective,
Jerry's Kids,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.