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 Suriname and from Houston.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric B and Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Newcleus,
Masters at Work,
The Cowsills,
Nils Olav,
Mars,
The Young Rascals,
Godley & Creme,
The Associates,
The Move,
Arthur Verocai,
Ten City,
Ralphi Rosario,
Second Layer,
Bronski Beat,
World's Most,
The Fuzztones,
The Shadows of Knight,
AZ,
Rites of Spring,
Public Enemy,
The Walker Brothers,
Ohio Players,
Minnie Riperton,
Minny Pops,
Joe Finger,
The Monochrome Set,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
In Retrospect,
The Mummies,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Leonard Cohen,
Blancmange,
Ronan,
L. Decosne,
Glenn Branca,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pole,
Jerry's Kids,
Scan 7,
Visage,
Tubeway Army,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lalann,
The Seeds,
Scientists,
Roy Ayers,
Bluetip,
Gang of Four,
Slick Rick,
Ituana,
The Star Department,
B.T. Express,
The Birthday Party,
Mr. Review,
Oblivians,
Chrome,
Peter and Kerry,
Rosa Yemen,
The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders.
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.