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 Burundi and from New York.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
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 Buzzcocks to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Hoover. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Crime,
Kas Product,
Make Up,
Funky Four + One,
Nas,
Scientists,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Metal Thangz,
Derrick May,
The Walker Brothers,
Amazonics,
DJ Style,
Avey Tare,
Mad Mike,
Depeche Mode,
Dual Sessions,
The Litter,
Roy Ayers,
Grandmaster Flash,
Visage,
John Cale,
The Black Dice,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Goldenarms,
Nirvana,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Drexciya,
Don Cherry,
Motorama,
Procol Harum,
Camouflage,
Dawn Penn,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Skaos,
Whodini,
Rapeman,
June of 44,
Suicide,
Yazoo,
The Techniques,
Sarah Menescal,
Warsaw,
Lower 48,
Aaron Thompson,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Alton Ellis,
T.S.O.L.,
Deakin,
The Motions,
The Associates,
E-Dancer,
The Move,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Skarface,
Mars,
Godley & Creme,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ultra Naté,
Los Fastidios,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.