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 Oman and from Glasgow.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Saccharine Trust to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Rod Modell,
Royal Trux,
Roger Hodgson,
Nirvana,
The Doobie Brothers,
PIL,
Lee Hazlewood,
The United States of America,
Sonny Sharrock,
Deepchord,
Roxette,
Quadrant,
Anakelly,
Circle Jerks,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Basic Channel,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Smog,
Ultra Naté,
Fatback Band,
Japan,
Rakim,
Pylon,
Dual Sessions,
Ice-T,
Roy Ayers,
Qualms,
Negative Approach,
Von Mondo,
Black Moon,
Joe Smooth,
Piero Umiliani,
Dark Day,
Excepter,
Lower 48,
H. Thieme,
Lou Christie,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sugar Minott,
Todd Terry,
Marmalade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Techniques,
The Count Five,
Brick,
Mr. Review,
Letta Mbulu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arab on Radar,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Man Eating Sloth,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Soft Cell,
The Barracudas,
Juan Atkins,
Jacques Brel,
Connie Case,
Ohio Players,
KRS-One,
The Sound,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.