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 Armenia and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 sitar 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 The Gories to the techno 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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Trumans Water,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Radiohead,
Loose Ends,
The Pop Group,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Byron Stingily,
Sixth Finger,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Basic Channel,
Marshall Jefferson,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Moody Blues,
The Doors,
Minor Threat,
Althea and Donna,
Josef K,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Negative Approach,
Metal Thangz,
Donny Hathaway,
Royal Trux,
Joe Finger,
LL Cool J,
Skaos,
Connie Case,
The Vogues,
Scott Walker,
The Five Americans,
The Cowsills,
Skriet,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Deadbeat,
Inner City,
The Mummies,
Monolake,
Janne Schatter,
Porter Ricks,
Lee Hazlewood,
Guru Guru,
Flipper,
Niagra,
Grey Daturas,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
New York Dolls,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Scrapy,
Ludus,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scan 7,
Cybotron,
CMW,
Max Romeo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Visage,
Don Cherry,
The Martian,
Bad Manners,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Fugazi,
Stockholm Monsters,
Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction.
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.