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 Nigeria and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 Lagos and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Henry Cow to the disco 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
The Litter,
Michelle Simonal,
Masters at Work,
Minnie Riperton,
Animal Collective,
Flash Fearless,
EPMD,
Reuben Wilson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Clear Light,
LL Cool J,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
China Crisis,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Last Poets,
Shuggie Otis,
Chris Corsano,
Sixth Finger,
Ultravox,
Yellowson,
Dennis Brown,
Saccharine Trust,
AZ,
Malaria!,
David Axelrod,
The Vogues,
Q and Not U,
The Angels of Light,
Big Daddy Kane,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sugar Minott,
Jeff Lynne,
Roy Ayers,
The Techniques,
The Beau Brummels,
Lower 48,
Glenn Branca,
Sällskapet,
Black Bananas,
E-Dancer,
Magazine,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Adolescents,
Sound Behaviour,
Simply Red,
Jeff Mills,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Fortunes,
Jacques Brel,
The Neon Judgement,
Visage,
Gerry Rafferty,
Be Bop Deluxe,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Scott Walker,
Jimmy McGriff,
Radiopuhelimet,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.