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 Mali and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 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 Agitation Free to the techno 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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sandy B record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-102,
James White and The Blacks,
Eric Copeland,
Sonic Youth,
KRS-One,
The Toasters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Public Enemy,
The Doors,
Lower 48,
Massinfluence,
Charles Mingus,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Moby Grape,
Scion,
Ronnie Foster,
Scientists,
Masters at Work,
Desert Stars,
Public Image Ltd.,
Aswad,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Section 25,
Radiopuhelimet,
Loose Ends,
PIL,
Pantaleimon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Freddie Wadling,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jacob Miller,
Peter & Gordon,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Althea and Donna,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Swans,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Erykah Badu,
Model 500,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Surgeon,
John Foxx,
The Move,
Shoche,
FM Einheit,
Traffic Nightmare,
Rotary Connection,
Tommy Roe,
Slave,
Cal Tjader,
Make Up,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Camouflage,
Vainqueur,
Fela Kuti,
Johnny Clarke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Essential Logic,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.