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 Bangladesh and from Lyon.
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 Taipei and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Thompson Twins to the electroclash 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mandrill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Eli Mardock,
Royal Trux,
Japan,
Scratch Acid,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Main Source,
UT,
Shoche,
The Saints,
The Trojans,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Kinks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cameo,
Radio Birdman,
Harmonia,
Soul Sonic Force,
Aloha Tigers,
Altered Images,
Terry Callier,
Television,
Todd Terry,
The Happenings,
Tears for Fears,
Eyeless In Gaza,
a-ha,
Blake Baxter,
The Pop Group,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Dark Day,
Liliput,
KRS-One,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
In Retrospect,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Flash Fearless,
Thee Headcoats,
Warsaw,
Skaos,
Depeche Mode,
Pantytec,
Brick,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Technova,
Freddie Wadling,
Letta Mbulu,
Mandrill,
Animal Collective,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Monks,
Massinfluence,
Basic Channel,
Swans,
Boredoms,
Soft Cell,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cheater Slicks,
Kenny Larkin,
Carl Craig,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.