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 Armenia and from Cairo.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the theremin 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 Funkadelic 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 Ken Boothe. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra Arkestra 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Arthur Verocai,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Piero Umiliani,
Minnie Riperton,
Cecil Taylor,
Matthew Halsall,
Country Teasers,
Stereo Dub,
Unrelated Segments,
Dark Day,
DNA,
Anakelly,
Hashim,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Magma,
EPMD,
Jacob Miller,
Panda Bear,
Bill Wells,
UT,
Amazonics,
Japan,
The Sound,
The Evens,
The Electric Prunes,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Average White Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brass Construction,
Archie Shepp,
Erasure,
Dave Gahan,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bootsy Collins,
Danielle Patucci,
Marvin Gaye,
Wally Richardson,
Donald Byrd,
Peter & Gordon,
Young Marble Giants,
Graham Central Station,
The Tremeloes,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Qualms,
Accadde A,
Patti Smith,
the Bar-Kays,
Yusef Lateef,
Gang of Four,
Essential Logic,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Severed Heads,
Slave,
Fluxion,
X-Ray Spex,
Delta 5,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rod Modell,
Nico,
Whodini,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.