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 Romania and from Stockholm.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 sitar 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 The Motions to the jazz 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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Sound,
Ohio Players,
Leonard Cohen,
The Victims,
Ten City,
Circle Jerks,
Aloha Tigers,
The Monochrome Set,
Y Pants,
Alison Limerick,
Jimmy McGriff,
Wings,
Maurizio,
Johnny Clarke,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
June of 44,
Parry Music,
Visage,
Silicon Teens,
Animal Collective,
Lebanon Hanover,
Joy Division,
Rosa Yemen,
Pantaleimon,
Byron Stingily,
The Motions,
Wally Richardson,
Todd Rundgren,
Electric Prunes,
Unrelated Segments,
Delon & Dalcan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Joe Finger,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nik Kershaw,
Con Funk Shun,
Von Mondo,
Country Teasers,
Howard Jones,
Jeff Lynne,
Dead Boys,
MC5,
Urselle,
Icehouse,
Tres Demented,
The Techniques,
Banda Bassotti,
Steve Hackett,
Barry Ungar,
Kurtis Blow,
Josef K,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scan 7,
Junior Murvin,
Judy Mowatt,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.