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 Guatemala and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 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 Arcadia to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 A Flock of Seagulls. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Music Machine,
The Shadows of Knight,
Nas,
Erasure,
Shoche,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Standells,
Moby Grape,
Unrelated Segments,
Flipper,
Stiv Bators,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Alarm Clocks,
Warsaw,
Hashim,
Kurtis Blow,
Loose Ends,
Harpers Bizarre,
Symarip,
Matthew Halsall,
Lakeside,
Avey Tare,
Al Stewart,
The Cure,
Bad Manners,
Crispy Ambulance,
Glenn Branca,
Section 25,
The Zeros,
Mantronix,
Sound Behaviour,
The Toasters,
World's Most,
Sight & Sound,
The Mummies,
China Crisis,
Electric Prunes,
The Remains,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Index,
Darondo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Schoolly D,
These Immortal Souls,
Althea and Donna,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Moss Icon,
The Doors,
The Durutti Column,
Lightning Bolt,
Das Ding,
Robert Görl,
Black Pus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faust,
Dawn Penn,
Basic Channel,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
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.