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 Kosovo and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bad Manners to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Five Americans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Piero Umiliani,
The Index,
Steve Hackett,
Bill Wells,
The Real Kids,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Radiopuhelimet,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Little Man,
The Cowsills,
Ponytail,
Pussy Galore,
Mars,
Reagan Youth,
Symarip,
Average White Band,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Tres Demented,
Sarah Menescal,
Rotary Connection,
Rakim,
MDC,
Ralphi Rosario,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Skriet,
Lightning Bolt,
Don Cherry,
Kas Product,
Frankie Knuckles,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Golliwogs,
Amon Düül,
Joe Finger,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Talk Talk,
Bobby Byrd,
Idris Muhammad,
Eddi Front,
U.S. Maple,
The Misunderstood,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lindisfarne,
The Moody Blues,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Guru Guru,
Boz Scaggs,
PIL,
Joy Division,
Dawn Penn,
The Count Five,
Bill Near,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Residents,
Reuben Wilson,
the Swans,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rapeman,
OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO.
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.