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 France and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Real Kids to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tres Demented,
Lalann,
Hardrive,
Quadrant,
Eurythmics,
The Zeros,
Robert Hood,
Lower 48,
The Remains,
Fela Kuti,
Connie Case,
The Neon Judgement,
Y Pants,
Big Daddy Kane,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Black Moon,
Robert Wyatt,
Nils Olav,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Prince Buster,
Chris Corsano,
Black Sheep,
Max Romeo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Whodini,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Pretty Things,
Index,
Icehouse,
The Smoke,
Ten City,
The Sound,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Happenings,
CMW,
Tears for Fears,
Magma,
Reagan Youth,
the Association,
David Bowie,
FM Einheit,
Ultimate Spinach,
Anthony Braxton,
Alison Limerick,
Minutemen,
Heaven 17,
Johnny Clarke,
KRS-One,
Hot Snakes,
Simply Red,
AZ,
In Retrospect,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Tremeloes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Aural Exciters,
Moby Grape,
Groovy Waters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Shuggie Otis,
One Last Wish,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.