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 Serbia and from Calgary.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Germs. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a OOIOO record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ohio Players,
Soft Cell,
Grey Daturas,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Walker Brothers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Nils Olav,
Dave Gahan,
Con Funk Shun,
China Crisis,
Unwound,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Flipper,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Zeros,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Pop Group,
Donny Hathaway,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Dead C,
Mission of Burma,
Model 500,
The Associates,
Anakelly,
Duran Duran,
Lyres,
Fad Gadget,
The Dirtbombs,
The Neon Judgement,
Bill Wells,
Sandy B,
The Trojans,
Ten City,
the Slits,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Nik Kershaw,
Moss Icon,
Cybotron,
JFA,
Parry Music,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
B.T. Express,
Kas Product,
Michelle Simonal,
The Blackbyrds,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Stereo Dub,
Danielle Patucci,
Hot Snakes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Avey Tare,
Qualms,
Cal Tjader,
Curtis Mayfield,
Barry Ungar,
Intrusion,
Nick Fraelich,
LL Cool J,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.