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 Peru and from Edmonton.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Fuzztones to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Grey Daturas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Nico,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Roger Hodgson,
Model 500,
Nirvana,
Junior Murvin,
Anthony Braxton,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Man Parrish,
Peter and Kerry,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lower 48,
John Foxx,
Dennis Brown,
Oneida,
Yazoo,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
DJ Sneak,
Shoche,
Television Personalities,
Funky Four + One,
Cluster,
John Holt,
Niagra,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Alice Coltrane,
The Tremeloes,
Moby Grape,
Crispy Ambulance,
Connie Case,
Erasure,
Quadrant,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Motions,
Minny Pops,
the Germs,
Au Pairs,
Idris Muhammad,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Count Five,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Fall,
Rhythm & Sound,
Massinfluence,
Danielle Patucci,
Trumans Water,
Camouflage,
Alison Limerick,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kool Moe Dee,
Surgeon,
Cameo,
Monks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
This Heat,
New Age Steppers,
Groovy Waters,
Simply Red,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.