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 Bolivia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 güiro 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 John Holt to the jazz 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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Bourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deadbeat 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 chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angry Samoans 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?
The Gap Band,
Mantronix,
Kurtis Blow,
Altered Images,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Harmonia,
Jawbox,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Grey Daturas,
Rod Modell,
Deadbeat,
Half Japanese,
The Residents,
Soul II Soul,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Tubeway Army,
Youth Brigade,
The Fall,
The American Breed,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Tres Demented,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Harpers Bizarre,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Sound,
B.T. Express,
Gang Starr,
Moebius,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eli Mardock,
Scientists,
The Fugs,
The Fire Engines,
The Flesh Eaters,
Metal Thangz,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Buckinghams,
T. Rex,
Ice-T,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bush Tetras,
Minutemen,
Wasted Youth,
The Raincoats,
The Human League,
LL Cool J,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eric B and Rakim,
Oneida,
Minnie Riperton,
John Lydon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Davy DMX,
Laurel Aitken,
Soul Sonic Force,
Erasure,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.