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 Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bizarre Inc. to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rekid,
The Modern Lovers,
Tubeway Army,
Gichy Dan,
The Doors,
Nik Kershaw,
Dark Day,
Pylon,
Colin Newman,
Infiniti,
The Alarm Clocks,
Glenn Branca,
Blancmange,
The American Breed,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Livin' Joy,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fluxion,
The Music Machine,
Lee Hazlewood,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Brothers Johnson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Soulsonic Force,
Steve Hackett,
Tears for Fears,
Scientists,
H. Thieme,
Rufus Thomas,
Mantronix,
The Monochrome Set,
Ossler,
Todd Rundgren,
Donny Hathaway,
Main Source,
David McCallum,
the Sonics,
Jacques Brel,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Intrusion,
Peter and Kerry,
Camouflage,
John Holt,
Bluetip,
Jimmy McGriff,
Japan,
Sonic Youth,
Pussy Galore,
The Cure,
This Heat,
Urselle,
Q65,
Man Parrish,
Johnny Osbourne,
Eric Copeland,
Metal Thangz,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.