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 Iraq and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Holger Czukay 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Funky Four + One. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust 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 mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Banda Bassotti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Gang Starr,
The Pretty Things,
The Offenders,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Rapeman,
Wolf Eyes,
The Slackers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Animal Collective,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Stiv Bators,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Boz Scaggs,
Marmalade,
The Human League,
Toni Rubio,
Gang Green,
X-102,
OOIOO,
The Blackbyrds,
Flash Fearless,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Doors,
Leonard Cohen,
The Cure,
Archie Shepp,
Nick Fraelich,
Judy Mowatt,
Eric Dolphy,
Sexual Harrassment,
Groovy Waters,
Aural Exciters,
Joensuu 1685,
The Misunderstood,
Robert Hood,
The Stooges,
Desert Stars,
Davy DMX,
The Barracudas,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Remains,
The Beau Brummels,
Young Marble Giants,
Stereo Dub,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Moleskins,
Tom Boy,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ronan,
Schoolly D,
Radiohead,
Tears for Fears,
The Walker Brothers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Mummies,
Bush Tetras,
The Martian,
Eden Ahbez,
Ten City,
the Human League, the Human League, the Human League, the Human League.
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.