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 Monaco and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Eurythmics to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
Brass Construction,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Smog,
Jesper Dahlback,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Gories,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Yaz,
Joyce Sims,
Matthew Bourne,
Soul II Soul,
Suburban Knight,
Johnny Osbourne,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Amon Düül II,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Mojo Men,
John Holt,
Blossom Toes,
Boredoms,
Ronnie Foster,
Graham Central Station,
Scratch Acid,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Yellowson,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sun Ra,
Morten Harket,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Motions,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Neil Young,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rekid,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Skatalites,
Neu!,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lou Reed,
Sarah Menescal,
Mars,
Talk Talk,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Skaos,
Stiv Bators,
Crash Course in Science,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sight & Sound,
The Blackbyrds,
David McCallum,
Jacob Miller,
The Real Kids,
The Litter,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Drexciya,
Wally Richardson,
One Last Wish,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.