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 Mexico and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Supertramp to the rap 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Graham Central Station,
Depeche Mode,
The Busters,
The Trojans,
Au Pairs,
Wings,
the Soft Cell,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Pet Shop Boys,
Massinfluence,
Malaria!,
Jeff Mills,
Sparks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Reuben Wilson,
Funkadelic,
Lee Hazlewood,
MDC,
Eric Dolphy,
AZ,
Surgeon,
Barclay James Harvest,
Neu!,
Oneida,
Tom Boy,
The Knickerbockers,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Q65,
Tomorrow,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
DJ Style,
Brand Nubian,
Pagans,
Cybotron,
Josef K,
Matthew Halsall,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Throbbing Gristle,
Traffic Nightmare,
Shuggie Otis,
The Grass Roots,
One Last Wish,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The United States of America,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Panda Bear,
Suicide,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Fatback Band,
The Star Department,
Magazine,
Funky Four + One,
JFA,
The Buckinghams,
New Age Steppers,
Crash Course in Science,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Scientists,
Terrestrial Tones,
Suburban Knight,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.