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 Morocco and from Johannesburg.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Soft Cell to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Suburban Knight. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Q and Not U,
Reagan Youth,
Unwound,
Lalann,
La Düsseldorf,
Iggy Pop,
Ronnie Foster,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sällskapet,
Howard Jones,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Electric Prunes,
In Retrospect,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ten City,
Marine Girls,
Newcleus,
Blake Baxter,
Agitation Free,
The Martian,
Gong,
Matthew Halsall,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
EPMD,
Cal Tjader,
Idris Muhammad,
Marc Almond,
Bang On A Can,
The New Christs,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Slave,
Gregory Isaacs,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Peter and Kerry,
Harry Pussy,
Eden Ahbez,
Nils Olav,
The Sonics,
Gang Green,
Black Sheep,
Marcia Griffiths,
Goldenarms,
Aural Exciters,
Dave Gahan,
Intrusion,
Byron Stingily,
Moebius,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Harmonia,
Juan Atkins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Young Rascals,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Dave Clark Five,
Camouflage,
Massinfluence,
Hasil Adkins,
MDC,
Michelle Simonal,
The Durutti Column,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.