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 Estonia and from Bremen.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Dorothy Ashby to the grime 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 The Blackbyrds. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Trumans Water,
Sun City Girls,
cv313,
The Gap Band,
Joy Division,
Sixth Finger,
James White and The Blacks,
Theoretical Girls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Severed Heads,
Groovy Waters,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Walker Brothers,
The Standells,
Laurel Aitken,
Von Mondo,
Curtis Mayfield,
the Normal,
Aswad,
Kerri Chandler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Skriet,
Minor Threat,
Quadrant,
Roxy Music,
Marmalade,
Dawn Penn,
Kaleidoscope,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Spandau Ballet,
The Offenders,
Soul Sonic Force,
Howard Jones,
Underground Resistance,
Fugazi,
Slave,
Yellowson,
June of 44,
Interpol,
Technova,
Outsiders,
Rufus Thomas,
The Music Machine,
Grey Daturas,
Silicon Teens,
Quando Quango,
Joe Finger,
a-ha,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Buckinghams,
Kas Product,
PIL,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gabor Szabo,
Cal Tjader,
the Germs,
Jimmy McGriff,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gastr Del Sol,
Jeff Lynne,
Flash Fearless,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.