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 Haiti and from Salvador.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the snare 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 Gong to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Mission of Burma. All the underground hits.
All Kenny Larkin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Symarip,
CMW,
Skarface,
Lee Hazlewood,
Henry Cow,
World's Most,
Joy Division,
Nation of Ulysses,
Cameo,
The Modern Lovers,
The Dead C,
Moss Icon,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Con Funk Shun,
Kas Product,
Deakin,
Andrew Hill,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Count Five,
Alphaville,
Aloha Tigers,
Agent Orange,
Desert Stars,
The Saints,
This Heat,
Wolf Eyes,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Skriet,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Delon & Dalcan,
Depeche Mode,
Pulsallama,
Marine Girls,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pantytec,
Freddie Wadling,
Camouflage,
Johnny Clarke,
Silicon Teens,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Saccharine Trust,
48th St. Collective,
Scientists,
B.T. Express,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Chrome,
Crash Course in Science,
China Crisis,
The Divine Comedy,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rod Modell,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Flamin' Groovies,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Misunderstood,
Boz Scaggs,
Panda Bear,
Icehouse,
Nick Fraelich,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.