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 France and from London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Robert Palmer 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 Franke to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Fall. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
Spandau Ballet,
Maleditus Sound,
Cymande,
Big Daddy Kane,
Cecil Taylor,
Visage,
10cc,
Swans,
kango's stein massive,
a-ha,
The Vogues,
Groovy Waters,
Ultravox,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Neil Young,
This Heat,
U.S. Maple,
Barclay James Harvest,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rites of Spring,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Mojo Men,
Laurel Aitken,
The Raincoats,
Connie Case,
Ituana,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Slave,
Albert Ayler,
Michelle Simonal,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dead Boys,
Lou Christie,
Jeff Lynne,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Bar-Kays,
Soul II Soul,
Fad Gadget,
Sparks,
Gang Gang Dance,
OOIOO,
Fatback Band,
Can,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Zeros,
Deepchord,
The Pretty Things,
Ohio Players,
Soft Cell,
Thee Headcoats,
Make Up,
Altered Images,
Ronnie Foster,
China Crisis,
Absolute Body Control,
Flipper,
Swell Maps,
Dennis Brown,
In Retrospect,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Monochrome Set,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.