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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Johannesburg.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Byron Stingily,
Jeru the Damaja,
Inner City,
Godley & Creme,
the Swans,
Donny Hathaway,
The Doobie Brothers,
Dave Gahan,
Black Flag,
Eve St. Jones,
Subhumans,
Simply Red,
Sight & Sound,
LL Cool J,
Howard Jones,
Clear Light,
The Associates,
The Seeds,
Idris Muhammad,
Ralphi Rosario,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Heaven 17,
Oblivians,
Crash Course in Science,
Ohio Players,
John Coltrane,
Mantronix,
Joe Smooth,
Sound Behaviour,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sarah Menescal,
Unrelated Segments,
Silicon Teens,
Skarface,
Schoolly D,
Peter & Gordon,
David McCallum,
Camouflage,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kayak,
Gang Green,
Maurizio,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Remains,
Rapeman,
48th St. Collective,
Jeff Lynne,
Wings,
John Foxx,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Zapp,
Echospace,
Mars,
Morten Harket,
The J.B.'s,
The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids.
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.