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 Korea North and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 theremin 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 Rod Modell 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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
The Walker Brothers,
The Divine Comedy,
Kas Product,
The Invisible,
Amon Düül,
Silicon Teens,
Wally Richardson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minnie Riperton,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
John Coltrane,
Spoonie Gee,
Surgeon,
DJ Sneak,
Arcadia,
The Smoke,
Cecil Taylor,
Vainqueur,
The American Breed,
E-Dancer,
Agitation Free,
Roger Hodgson,
Pagans,
Lightning Bolt,
Matthew Bourne,
The Misunderstood,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Janne Schatter,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Toasters,
Leonard Cohen,
Aaron Thompson,
Patti Smith,
Japan,
The Smiths,
the Soft Cell,
Eric Dolphy,
The Count Five,
The Fire Engines,
Anthony Braxton,
The Selecter,
Faraquet,
the Germs,
Rites of Spring,
Thee Headcoats,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lakeside,
Kurtis Blow,
Boz Scaggs,
the Association,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rekid,
June Days,
The Stooges,
Massinfluence,
The Mojo Men,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.