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 Palau and from Sao Paulo.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 linndrum 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 Buzzcocks to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alison Limerick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Vogues,
Barbara Tucker,
Tres Demented,
K-Klass,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Alison Limerick,
Ken Boothe,
Porter Ricks,
The Trojans,
Lakeside,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Basic Channel,
The Pretty Things,
Thompson Twins,
Japan,
The Misunderstood,
Janne Schatter,
Lindisfarne,
Connie Case,
Yellowson,
The Beau Brummels,
The Names,
Ultimate Spinach,
Boogie Down Productions,
Qualms,
Arcadia,
Whodini,
Country Teasers,
Malaria!,
Public Image Ltd.,
Soul II Soul,
Mad Mike,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Quando Quango,
Wolf Eyes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Aloha Tigers,
ABBA,
China Crisis,
Frankie Knuckles,
Minor Threat,
The Music Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Banda Bassotti,
Bang On A Can,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Tommy Roe,
Erasure,
Eric Dolphy,
Index,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gong,
Slave,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Dead C,
Derrick May,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pere Ubu,
Moby Grape,
Brass Construction,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.