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 Taiwan and from Bologna.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Manila.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Marcia Griffiths to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Desert Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gong record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joy Division,
EPMD,
Bush Tetras,
Adolescents,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Q65,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Franke,
Skarface,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jeff Mills,
The Human League,
Harmonia,
Boogie Down Productions,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Chris Corsano,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Names,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Alarm Clocks,
Little Man,
Pole,
Black Moon,
Bootsy Collins,
Tom Boy,
Radiohead,
Sun Ra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jeff Lynne,
Max Romeo,
Gregory Isaacs,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lucky Dragons,
The Fugs,
Byron Stingily,
The Move,
Jerry's Kids,
Glambeats Corp.,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pantytec,
Bill Wells,
Kerrie Biddell,
Soft Cell,
Cluster,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Cure,
Vladislav Delay,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Stockholm Monsters,
Wally Richardson,
Rhythm & Sound,
Darondo,
Donny Hathaway,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Dave Clark Five,
Silicon Teens,
Nirvana,
Second Layer,
The Gories,
Rites of Spring,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
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.