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 Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Neil Young to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
The Doobie Brothers,
Skaos,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Smoke,
Chris Corsano,
Quadrant,
Heaven 17,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ludus,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Chrome,
Bob Dylan,
Mars,
Peter and Kerry,
Little Man,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Hardrive,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ponytail,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Rufus Thomas,
The Gun Club,
Alison Limerick,
Blossom Toes,
Sonic Youth,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sex Pistols,
Fatback Band,
Bobby Sherman,
Quando Quango,
The Seeds,
Kool Moe Dee,
F. McDonald,
The Five Americans,
Thompson Twins,
Supertramp,
Average White Band,
Josef K,
Idris Muhammad,
Clear Light,
Amon Düül II,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Terrestrial Tones,
Unwound,
Henry Cow,
Easy Going,
FM Einheit,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Buckinghams,
Iggy Pop,
The Fuzztones,
Public Enemy,
Vainqueur,
Scientists,
the Slits,
Rakim,
Visage,
The Pretty Things,
Soulsonic Force,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.