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 Georgia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Blancmange to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord 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 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?
Jacob Miller,
Sex Pistols,
Dark Day,
One Last Wish,
Marine Girls,
Rufus Thomas,
Gang Starr,
The J.B.'s,
Boz Scaggs,
Pole,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Last Poets,
Joensuu 1685,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cameo,
The Tremeloes,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Mummies,
Brick,
Pagans,
Lyres,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Minny Pops,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Johnny Osbourne,
Eddi Front,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Vladislav Delay,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ituana,
Loose Ends,
Camberwell Now,
Technova,
Cheater Slicks,
Cecil Taylor,
Slave,
Bauhaus,
Absolute Body Control,
Supertramp,
Ultravox,
Alison Limerick,
The Fuzztones,
Pulsallama,
X-102,
Moebius,
Magma,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Slits,
Neu!,
Visage,
Glambeats Corp.,
Duran Duran,
The Standells,
Chris Corsano,
Hardrive,
Flash Fearless,
Kaleidoscope,
Funky Four + One,
Junior Murvin,
Rotary Connection,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Toasters,
Crime, Crime, Crime, Crime.
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.