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 Uganda and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Fad Gadget to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
Neil Young,
DJ Sneak,
Graham Central Station,
The Cowsills,
Warren Ellis,
Blossom Toes,
The J.B.'s,
The Buckinghams,
Dead Boys,
Darondo,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bootsy Collins,
These Immortal Souls,
Eric B and Rakim,
June Days,
The Monks,
Severed Heads,
The Modern Lovers,
Amon Düül,
The Skatalites,
Absolute Body Control,
Joe Finger,
Yaz,
The Star Department,
Blancmange,
Television,
Joe Smooth,
Trumans Water,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Qualms,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Black Bananas,
Erykah Badu,
Moss Icon,
DJ Style,
Michelle Simonal,
Eden Ahbez,
The Birthday Party,
La Düsseldorf,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Television Personalities,
The Offenders,
The Seeds,
The Tremeloes,
Sister Nancy,
One Last Wish,
Be Bop Deluxe,
B.T. Express,
Eurythmics,
the Bar-Kays,
Freddie Wadling,
Pantytec,
The Associates,
The Cramps,
Gichy Dan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Malaria!,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
New York Dolls,
Man Eating Sloth,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.