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 Ethiopia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 snare 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 Peter and Kerry to the rap 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All The Men They Couldn't Hang tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Wyatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Doors,
Lakeside,
Gregory Isaacs,
Todd Terry,
Connie Case,
Crash Course in Science,
Gang of Four,
The Beau Brummels,
Chris Corsano,
Urselle,
Radiopuhelimet,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
John Cale,
Little Man,
Sam Rivers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Barrington Levy,
Monks,
Kerri Chandler,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Sound,
Black Pus,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Unwound,
Pere Ubu,
Graham Central Station,
Echospace,
Easy Going,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Nils Olav,
The Durutti Column,
Sarah Menescal,
Animal Collective,
Alison Limerick,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Johnny Clarke,
The Buckinghams,
Scrapy,
The Cramps,
Skaos,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Busters,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pole,
Ossler,
Stetsasonic,
The Leaves,
Michelle Simonal,
The Velvet Underground,
Sight & Sound,
Accadde A,
Darondo,
Crooked Eye,
Bad Manners,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Electric Prunes,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.