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 Colombia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Pylon to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The J.B.'s 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drexciya,
Visage,
Section 25,
Cheater Slicks,
48th St. Collective,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Groovy Waters,
Dorothy Ashby,
Cymande,
Hardrive,
Soft Machine,
Avey Tare,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Gladiators,
Faraquet,
The Human League,
Michelle Simonal,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
Donny Hathaway,
K-Klass,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mo-Dettes,
Marine Girls,
Godley & Creme,
The Raincoats,
Toni Rubio,
Wally Richardson,
The Fall,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Porter Ricks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Donald Byrd,
The Electric Prunes,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Residents,
The Tremeloes,
Robert Wyatt,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rakim,
Scott Walker,
The Five Americans,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sun City Girls,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Velvet Underground,
The Fuzztones,
Index,
Moby Grape,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Throbbing Gristle,
Wings,
the Soft Cell,
The Walker Brothers,
Magazine,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.