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 Jordan and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the electroclash 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 48th St. Collective. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lyres,
Minor Threat,
Absolute Body Control,
Section 25,
The Fire Engines,
D'Angelo,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Spandau Ballet,
The Kinks,
The Barracudas,
Blake Baxter,
Audionom,
Al Stewart,
Siglo XX,
Rekid,
Scientists,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fela Kuti,
Pole,
MDC,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Joyce Sims,
Marine Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Todd Terry,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lucky Dragons,
Kerrie Biddell,
48th St. Collective,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hoover,
DJ Style,
Marvin Gaye,
Blossom Toes,
Terrestrial Tones,
Q and Not U,
Brand Nubian,
Sparks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Don Cherry,
Sight & Sound,
Dark Day,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Porter Ricks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Brothers Johnson,
Urselle,
Jacques Brel,
Jeff Mills,
Yazoo,
One Last Wish,
Lower 48,
Bootsy Collins,
The Doors,
Jawbox,
Rosa Yemen,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.