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 Bahrain and from Toronto.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lyon.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Babytalk to the electroclash 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 The Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
Procol Harum,
Erykah Badu,
The Cure,
Sugar Minott,
The Human League,
Country Teasers,
Camberwell Now,
The Velvet Underground,
Agitation Free,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Saccharine Trust,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barrington Levy,
Wolf Eyes,
Cymande,
Pulsallama,
Black Sheep,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sonic Youth,
Camouflage,
New Age Steppers,
Amon Düül II,
Niagra,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Sound,
Soft Machine,
Amon Düül,
Todd Terry,
Moss Icon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sam Rivers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Funky Four + One,
Eric Copeland,
Darondo,
Godley & Creme,
The Electric Prunes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Howard Jones,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Nick Fraelich,
the Swans,
Porter Ricks,
Ronnie Foster,
Black Moon,
Pantaleimon,
The Stooges,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Cheater Slicks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Smiths,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Brothers Johnson,
Loose Ends,
Shoche,
The Cowsills,
Das Ding,
Sparks,
Dead Boys,
Easy Going,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.