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 Slovenia and from Taipei.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Lou Reed 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Glenn Branca,
Wire,
Robert Hood,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ultimate Spinach,
Junior Murvin,
Sam Rivers,
Q65,
Aswad,
The Raincoats,
Section 25,
Sound Behaviour,
Scientists,
Con Funk Shun,
Pagans,
The Gap Band,
The Stooges,
Loose Ends,
The Blues Magoos,
The Music Machine,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sandy B,
The Names,
The Martian,
The Gladiators,
The Electric Prunes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
KRS-One,
Minnie Riperton,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Henry Cow,
The Gun Club,
Flipper,
the Fania All-Stars,
Easy Going,
Delta 5,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sonic Youth,
New Order,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Barclay James Harvest,
John Coltrane,
Kool Moe Dee,
Camouflage,
E-Dancer,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Massinfluence,
The Seeds,
The Victims,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Maleditus Sound,
Wings,
Kayak,
Quantec,
Rites of Spring,
Babytalk,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Slits,
Cecil Taylor,
Carl Craig,
Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse.
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.