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 South Africa and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Funkadelic to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Tim Buckley,
Bootsy Collins,
Kevin Saunderson,
Susan Cadogan,
Big Daddy Kane,
Model 500,
Nick Fraelich,
New York Dolls,
Kaleidoscope,
Gil Scott Heron,
Arab on Radar,
Black Sheep,
The Fall,
D'Angelo,
Rod Modell,
Leonard Cohen,
The Residents,
Alphaville,
The Kinks,
UT,
Aloha Tigers,
Janne Schatter,
The Pretty Things,
Marcia Griffiths,
Soul II Soul,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Music Machine,
Swell Maps,
Mars,
Desert Stars,
Metal Thangz,
Rhythm & Sound,
ABC,
R.M.O.,
Japan,
Pantytec,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Roger Hodgson,
Popol Vuh,
Joe Finger,
Crooked Eye,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Guru Guru,
Ten City,
Tom Boy,
Joensuu 1685,
Yusef Lateef,
Amazonics,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Donald Byrd,
Barry Ungar,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Busters,
Slick Rick,
Infiniti,
Soulsonic Force,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
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.