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 Mozambique and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Toronto and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Holger Czukay 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Funky Four + One. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
The Blackbyrds,
Alison Limerick,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Hoover,
The Doors,
Dorothy Ashby,
Hardrive,
Robert Görl,
Swell Maps,
The Slits,
Gang of Four,
Pussy Galore,
Boredoms,
The Wake,
Mission of Burma,
Erasure,
China Crisis,
Pagans,
Reuben Wilson,
Adolescents,
Echospace,
Country Teasers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Clear Light,
the Sonics,
Silicon Teens,
The Music Machine,
Gerry Rafferty,
David Bowie,
the Bar-Kays,
Soulsonic Force,
Fluxion,
Flash Fearless,
Public Image Ltd.,
Con Funk Shun,
Siglo XX,
Nico,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sexual Harrassment,
Goldenarms,
Donald Byrd,
Patti Smith,
Lindisfarne,
Quadrant,
Minutemen,
Bob Dylan,
K-Klass,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ludus,
48th St. Collective,
Parry Music,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Y Pants,
The Real Kids,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nas,
Buzzcocks,
Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon.
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.