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 Estonia and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 David McCallum to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mary Jane Girls 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Nico,
Monks,
The Golliwogs,
Deepchord,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Throbbing Gristle,
Shuggie Otis,
The Dave Clark Five,
Crash Course in Science,
R.M.O.,
Robert Görl,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dave Gahan,
Half Japanese,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Isaac Hayes,
Technova,
Buzzcocks,
DNA,
10cc,
Arcadia,
The Martian,
Todd Rundgren,
Aural Exciters,
Fear,
Ossler,
Stetsasonic,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Alison Limerick,
The Fugs,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Joensuu 1685,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Joey Negro,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Evens,
Kayak,
Judy Mowatt,
A Certain Ratio,
Don Cherry,
Kaleidoscope,
New Age Steppers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Skriet,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ituana,
Roxy Music,
Mr. Review,
the Sonics,
K-Klass,
Minutemen,
Mark Hollis,
EPMD,
Radiopuhelimet,
Motorama,
OOIOO,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Barclay James Harvest,
Cymande,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Spandau Ballet,
Alice Coltrane,
Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey.
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.