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 Ghana and from Halifax.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Philadelphia.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
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 Mary Jane Girls to the dance 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 Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-102 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Charles Mingus,
the Germs,
Nick Fraelich,
The Move,
Blake Baxter,
The Moleskins,
cv313,
Don Cherry,
Arcadia,
The Blackbyrds,
Letta Mbulu,
Kool Moe Dee,
Outsiders,
The Smiths,
Andrew Hill,
Wolf Eyes,
The Monochrome Set,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Harry Pussy,
China Crisis,
Eric Dolphy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lucky Dragons,
Judy Mowatt,
The Durutti Column,
These Immortal Souls,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lindisfarne,
Q65,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fela Kuti,
Goldenarms,
Kenny Larkin,
ABBA,
Alphaville,
Sixth Finger,
Public Enemy,
Scion,
Minutemen,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kaleidoscope,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Moebius,
Amon Düül II,
Fat Boys,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Echospace,
Colin Newman,
John Lydon,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Television,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Electric Prunes,
Eli Mardock,
In Retrospect,
Angry Samoans,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.