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 Cambodia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the grime 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 Television. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minnie Riperton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mark Hollis,
Japan,
Ossler,
Nico,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bad Manners,
Massinfluence,
The Cure,
Vladislav Delay,
Ronan,
The Raincoats,
Scan 7,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Detroit Cobras,
Scrapy,
The Beau Brummels,
MC5,
Iggy Pop,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rotary Connection,
Pet Shop Boys,
Marcia Griffiths,
China Crisis,
Goldenarms,
Frankie Knuckles,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Niagra,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
B.T. Express,
Nik Kershaw,
10cc,
Scratch Acid,
Josef K,
Echospace,
New Order,
Ice-T,
Unwound,
Lyres,
the Association,
The Happenings,
Judy Mowatt,
Kerri Chandler,
Darondo,
The Slackers,
Tim Buckley,
Stetsasonic,
Magazine,
The Angels of Light,
Second Layer,
Erykah Badu,
OOIOO,
Tomorrow,
Fat Boys,
Ten City,
Metal Thangz,
Glenn Branca,
Hasil Adkins,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eden Ahbez,
Kayak,
Easy Going,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap 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.