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 Malta and from Columbus.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the oboe 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 Thompson Twins to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan 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 guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hot Snakes,
The Gap Band,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Nils Olav,
Desert Stars,
Brothers Johnson,
Rapeman,
Khruangbin,
Bobby Womack,
Section 25,
Urselle,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ultimate Spinach,
Todd Rundgren,
Television,
Scientists,
The Slackers,
B.T. Express,
kango's stein massive,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Anakelly,
Black Pus,
Mad Mike,
Lightning Bolt,
Vladislav Delay,
James White and The Blacks,
The Techniques,
Youth Brigade,
Joe Finger,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Derrick Morgan,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Young Marble Giants,
Andrew Hill,
Public Enemy,
The Busters,
Bizarre Inc.,
Stereo Dub,
Aural Exciters,
Donny Hathaway,
Q and Not U,
Thee Headcoats,
Gil Scott Heron,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Model 500,
Ituana,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Susan Cadogan,
Amon Düül II,
Negative Approach,
Interpol,
Sixth Finger,
Hoover,
Oneida,
The Fall,
Minny Pops,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.