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 Dominican Republic and from Hong Kong.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Smiths to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
B.T. Express,
Derrick Morgan,
the Soft Cell,
The Fire Engines,
Cameo,
Scan 7,
Wire,
Au Pairs,
Crash Course in Science,
DJ Sneak,
Vainqueur,
Junior Murvin,
Trumans Water,
Slick Rick,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Marvin Gaye,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Unrelated Segments,
Cluster,
Eli Mardock,
The Zeros,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Germs,
Lou Reed,
Magma,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobby Byrd,
Max Romeo,
The Fuzztones,
Vladislav Delay,
The Gories,
Lower 48,
the Slits,
Radio Birdman,
X-Ray Spex,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Soulsonic Force,
World's Most,
Sex Pistols,
The New Christs,
The Leaves,
Aswad,
Curtis Mayfield,
Severed Heads,
Delta 5,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Liliput,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Kinks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Dead C,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cecil Taylor,
Jeff Mills,
Tropical Tobacco,
Camberwell Now,
Funky Four + One,
PIL,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.