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 Kyrgyzstan and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Terrestrial Tones to the techno 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barrington Levy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sam Rivers,
Guru Guru,
The Offenders,
Flash Fearless,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Traffic Nightmare,
10cc,
Alton Ellis,
Kurtis Blow,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Sherman,
Eve St. Jones,
Japan,
the Sonics,
Sister Nancy,
B.T. Express,
Cybotron,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Slackers,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sonic Youth,
Sonny Sharrock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Letta Mbulu,
Liliput,
World's Most,
John Foxx,
The Birthday Party,
Robert Hood,
Tommy Roe,
Nick Fraelich,
The Smoke,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Television Personalities,
Wire,
MDC,
T. Rex,
The Fire Engines,
the Swans,
Andrew Hill,
Eddi Front,
The Residents,
Barrington Levy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
DNA,
AZ,
Piero Umiliani,
The Moody Blues,
The Flesh Eaters,
John Cale,
Thompson Twins,
Deadbeat,
Little Man,
Erykah Badu,
Dark Day,
Jawbox,
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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.