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 Bulgaria and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 harpsichord 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 Aural Exciters to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Black Moon. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Offenders,
Matthew Halsall,
Marine Girls,
Frankie Knuckles,
Junior Murvin,
Eli Mardock,
Little Man,
The Angels of Light,
Judy Mowatt,
Japan,
Josef K,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Buckinghams,
Grey Daturas,
Underground Resistance,
Index,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Loose Ends,
Max Romeo,
Jacob Miller,
The Saints,
Lou Christie,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Television Personalities,
The Birthday Party,
Royal Trux,
Deepchord,
The Barracudas,
Michelle Simonal,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Boz Scaggs,
Agitation Free,
Cal Tjader,
PIL,
MDC,
Cameo,
Nico,
Magazine,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ten City,
The Red Krayola,
New Age Steppers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Parry Music,
The Golliwogs,
Circle Jerks,
Deakin,
World's Most,
Dave Gahan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Derrick Morgan,
Shoche,
Jeff Lynne,
Audionom,
E-Dancer,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Chris & Cosey,
The Blackbyrds,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Human League,
Letta Mbulu,
Avey Tare,
Outsiders,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap 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.