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 India and from Woodstock.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Rakim to the funk 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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Copeland record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Aswad,
ABC,
Althea and Donna,
Marvin Gaye,
In Retrospect,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dawn Penn,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Subhumans,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Camberwell Now,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Hasil Adkins,
Moby Grape,
Warsaw,
Joy Division,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fatback Band,
Severed Heads,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The New Christs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Blake Baxter,
Porter Ricks,
Stockholm Monsters,
CMW,
Bootsy Collins,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Anthony Braxton,
Sixth Finger,
Wasted Youth,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Alphaville,
The Golliwogs,
Thompson Twins,
The Count Five,
Mark Hollis,
The Mummies,
Little Man,
Archie Shepp,
Excepter,
Monolake,
One Last Wish,
The Monks,
48th St. Collective,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter and Kerry,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Flamin' Groovies,
Grey Daturas,
Deadbeat,
Eric B and Rakim,
Electric Prunes,
Cluster,
Guru Guru,
Faraquet,
The Zeros,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
the Human League,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.