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 Andorra and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Liliput to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Archie Shepp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra 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?
Lyres,
Gong,
X-Ray Spex,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Michelle Simonal,
The Stooges,
Sound Behaviour,
Crime,
Robert Görl,
The Skatalites,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Second Layer,
Todd Rundgren,
Zapp,
Henry Cow,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bad Manners,
Rapeman,
Scientists,
Slick Rick,
the Soft Cell,
Faust,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tropical Tobacco,
Eli Mardock,
One Last Wish,
Livin' Joy,
PIL,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Stiv Bators,
Arcadia,
The Barracudas,
the Human League,
Roy Ayers,
Sixth Finger,
The Cramps,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Leonard Cohen,
Depeche Mode,
Andrew Hill,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chris Corsano,
Jacob Miller,
Metal Thangz,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gang Starr,
Wally Richardson,
Tommy Roe,
ABBA,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Misunderstood,
ABC,
Lower 48,
Icehouse,
Robert Wyatt,
8 Eyed Spy,
Siglo XX,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.