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 Liberia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 synthesizer 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 Organ to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spandau Ballet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Quando Quango,
the Normal,
The Seeds,
Hot Snakes,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bobby Byrd,
Absolute Body Control,
Lucky Dragons,
The American Breed,
A Flock of Seagulls,
ABBA,
Rakim,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Doors,
Slave,
MDC,
Sandy B,
Lou Christie,
Average White Band,
Deakin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Man Eating Sloth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Q and Not U,
Fat Boys,
Roger Hodgson,
Banda Bassotti,
The Barracudas,
Alton Ellis,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lou Reed,
Audionom,
Sam Rivers,
Nick Fraelich,
Los Fastidios,
Nils Olav,
Delta 5,
H. Thieme,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
June Days,
Ludus,
Jimmy McGriff,
Adolescents,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Black Moon,
Big Daddy Kane,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Count Five,
Simply Red,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rites of Spring,
Depeche Mode,
The Pretty Things,
Index,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Tremeloes,
Stockholm Monsters,
Public Image Ltd.,
cv313,
LL Cool J,
Dual Sessions,
The Real Kids,
Scan 7,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.