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 Estonia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 synthesizer 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the dance 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Charles Mingus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Throbbing Gristle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe 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 Cure,
Schoolly D,
Mantronix,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
London Community Gospel Choir,
John Cale,
Funkadelic,
Bobby Sherman,
Spoonie Gee,
Rod Modell,
the Sonics,
Pulsallama,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Michelle Simonal,
Faust,
The Seeds,
T. Rex,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Busters,
Rekid,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Television Personalities,
Steve Hackett,
The Residents,
R.M.O.,
Audionom,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Banda Bassotti,
Bob Dylan,
The Grass Roots,
The Raincoats,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Danielle Patucci,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rapeman,
Amazonics,
The Slackers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
EPMD,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Crooked Eye,
Wings,
The Buckinghams,
Monolake,
Aloha Tigers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Pantaleimon,
Bobby Womack,
Man Eating Sloth,
Toni Rubio,
JFA,
Andrew Hill,
Ice-T,
Sandy B,
The Neon Judgement,
Marshall Jefferson,
Isaac Hayes,
Reuben Wilson,
Alphaville,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Silicon Teens,
Organ,
Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow.
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.