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 Lesotho and from Cairo.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Todd Rundgren to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tears for Fears record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rakim,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Tubeway Army,
Tears for Fears,
Gil Scott Heron,
Yusef Lateef,
Infiniti,
Mary Jane Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Skatalites,
Susan Cadogan,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Chris Corsano,
Laurel Aitken,
Graham Central Station,
Rhythm & Sound,
Joyce Sims,
Peter & Gordon,
Japan,
Ultra Naté,
Interpol,
Eric B and Rakim,
Oneida,
Vainqueur,
the Human League,
Bauhaus,
Albert Ayler,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Metal Thangz,
Shuggie Otis,
Kaleidoscope,
Basic Channel,
Clear Light,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Make Up,
Althea and Donna,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ten City,
Wolf Eyes,
The Five Americans,
Ronnie Foster,
The Young Rascals,
Sister Nancy,
The Vogues,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Easy Going,
Index,
Wire,
Black Sheep,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dark Day,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Roxy Music,
Jeff Mills,
Icehouse,
K-Klass,
Soulsonic Force,
Von Mondo,
Supertramp,
Derrick May,
Soul Sonic Force,
Magma, Magma, Magma, Magma.
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.