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 Jordan and from Seoul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Portland.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 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 The Star Department to the funk 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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Gabor Szabo,
Tim Buckley,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Morten Harket,
Marc Almond,
Kaleidoscope,
Banda Bassotti,
In Retrospect,
Pussy Galore,
The Leaves,
Skaos,
Dennis Brown,
Heaven 17,
The Neon Judgement,
Rhythm & Sound,
Charles Mingus,
Stetsasonic,
The Victims,
DJ Sneak,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Adolescents,
Country Teasers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bill Wells,
Wally Richardson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Fall,
Alphaville,
Idris Muhammad,
Patti Smith,
The Mojo Men,
Howard Jones,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Funky Four + One,
Intrusion,
The Fuzztones,
Young Marble Giants,
Scientists,
Symarip,
Ultravox,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Popol Vuh,
Section 25,
the Sonics,
Dorothy Ashby,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Goldenarms,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Frankie Knuckles,
Laurel Aitken,
The Cramps,
Alton Ellis,
Flamin' Groovies,
Arthur Verocai,
The Smiths,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bluetip,
Mars,
Jerry Gold Smith,
X-Ray Spex,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.