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 Marshall Islands and from Columbus.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Arab on Radar,
F. McDonald,
Crime,
Television,
Peter and Kerry,
David Axelrod,
The Moody Blues,
Soft Machine,
Goldenarms,
Bill Wells,
Dual Sessions,
Leonard Cohen,
Pere Ubu,
Boz Scaggs,
The Shadows of Knight,
Stockholm Monsters,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Absolute Body Control,
The Modern Lovers,
The Golliwogs,
DJ Style,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Toasters,
Suburban Knight,
This Heat,
K-Klass,
Gregory Isaacs,
Stereo Dub,
Avey Tare,
Guru Guru,
Angry Samoans,
Warren Ellis,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Funky Four + One,
Amon Düül II,
Bob Dylan,
Whodini,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Slave,
Inner City,
Flipper,
Anakelly,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pussy Galore,
Radiohead,
Marcia Griffiths,
Roy Ayers,
Davy DMX,
X-Ray Spex,
The Fortunes,
Sonic Youth,
The Gap Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Black Sheep,
AZ,
Brand Nubian,
Loose Ends,
The Five Americans,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.