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 Tonga and from Lagos.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Max Romeo to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Pantytec,
FM Einheit,
Marmalade,
Matthew Bourne,
Joe Finger,
Rod Modell,
Traffic Nightmare,
Matthew Halsall,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Goldenarms,
Marcia Griffiths,
Prince Buster,
Harmonia,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Wire,
Neu!,
Dead Boys,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eve St. Jones,
Yaz,
Deepchord,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Peter & Gordon,
The Saints,
Yazoo,
Soulsonic Force,
The Standells,
Bobby Byrd,
Ralphi Rosario,
Nirvana,
La Düsseldorf,
Interpol,
Letta Mbulu,
AZ,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jerry's Kids,
Icehouse,
Essential Logic,
DJ Style,
Jeff Mills,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eric Dolphy,
The Gun Club,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Audionom,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Associates,
The Smiths,
Underground Resistance,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Index,
The Seeds,
Skriet,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Faraquet,
Dave Gahan,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.