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 Denmark and from Lille.
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 Milan and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the guitar 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 Slackers to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
Parry Music,
The Searchers,
Bob Dylan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Excepter,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Human League,
Jerry's Kids,
Theoretical Girls,
The Pop Group,
Bang On A Can,
The Techniques,
Sound Behaviour,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Music Machine,
Von Mondo,
Jawbox,
Barry Ungar,
Motorama,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Judy Mowatt,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Divine Comedy,
The Alarm Clocks,
Marshall Jefferson,
Letta Mbulu,
Ten City,
Flash Fearless,
Royal Trux,
Kurtis Blow,
Das Ding,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Second Layer,
Ultimate Spinach,
James White and The Blacks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gang Green,
Zapp,
Delta 5,
Wally Richardson,
Guru Guru,
World's Most,
New Age Steppers,
The Trojans,
Faust,
Fat Boys,
Bronski Beat,
Saccharine Trust,
Joensuu 1685,
LL Cool J,
Organ,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Supertramp,
Joyce Sims,
Marcia Griffiths,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Gap Band,
Ken Boothe,
Neu!,
Terry Callier,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.