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 Indonesia and from Cairo.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Move. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Y Pants,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Intrusion,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Qualms,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
CMW,
Q65,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sonic Youth,
Eric B and Rakim,
Jacques Brel,
China Crisis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sarah Menescal,
Ronnie Foster,
These Immortal Souls,
Janne Schatter,
AZ,
MC5,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Main Source,
The Victims,
Clear Light,
Neu!,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Searchers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Mandrill,
Sixth Finger,
Mantronix,
Vladislav Delay,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sun Ra,
Funkadelic,
Sex Pistols,
The Smoke,
Delta 5,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
John Foxx,
Michelle Simonal,
Amazonics,
X-101,
Television,
Barbara Tucker,
Circle Jerks,
Magazine,
Freddie Wadling,
Pere Ubu,
Oblivians,
The Tremeloes,
Agent Orange,
Accadde A,
X-102,
Average White Band,
The Modern Lovers,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lou Reed,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.