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 Slovakia and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Schoolly D to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All Frankie Knuckles tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lightning Bolt 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 mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faraquet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fugazi,
Steve Hackett,
The Names,
Pole,
Roger Hodgson,
Sonny Sharrock,
Carl Craig,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Flag,
Cameo,
Harpers Bizarre,
Section 25,
Sarah Menescal,
Laurel Aitken,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Kinks,
Bill Near,
Q65,
The Doors,
Gerry Rafferty,
Fela Kuti,
Au Pairs,
The Sonics,
Parry Music,
H. Thieme,
Dual Sessions,
Newcleus,
Joey Negro,
EPMD,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Young Rascals,
Hot Snakes,
Bill Wells,
Tim Buckley,
Rufus Thomas,
Barrington Levy,
Sam Rivers,
Von Mondo,
The Wake,
Cluster,
New York Dolls,
Agitation Free,
Alton Ellis,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Underground Resistance,
Rapeman,
Marvin Gaye,
Arthur Verocai,
Roy Ayers,
Sex Pistols,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Mojo Men,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jawbox,
Symarip,
Yazoo,
The Cowsills,
Albert Ayler,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Johnny Osbourne,
Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia.
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.