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 Switzerland and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 guitar 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 Radiopuhelimet 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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar 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 sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Absolute Body Control,
The Mummies,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
kango's stein massive,
48th St. Collective,
Con Funk Shun,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Television Personalities,
Monks,
The J.B.'s,
Ice-T,
Babytalk,
Ultimate Spinach,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Soft Cell,
Liliput,
Joe Smooth,
Bobby Sherman,
Warsaw,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Minutemen,
Oblivians,
Country Teasers,
Duran Duran,
FM Einheit,
The Litter,
Sound Behaviour,
Barclay James Harvest,
Isaac Hayes,
Wolf Eyes,
Lou Christie,
Camouflage,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Names,
Gang Gang Dance,
Radio Birdman,
John Foxx,
Junior Murvin,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camberwell Now,
New York Dolls,
Colin Newman,
Guru Guru,
Marvin Gaye,
Traffic Nightmare,
Massinfluence,
Blossom Toes,
Theoretical Girls,
Glenn Branca,
The Searchers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Thee Headcoats,
Black Flag,
The Golliwogs,
The Black Dice,
The Velvet Underground,
Sun Ra,
Arthur Verocai,
The Busters,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.