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 Bolivia and from Mumbai.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 AZ to the disco 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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All Ralphi Rosario tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Eddi Front,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Alison Limerick,
The Real Kids,
The Kinks,
Amon Düül,
Graham Central Station,
Warsaw,
Gastr Del Sol,
Vainqueur,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Loose Ends,
Wolf Eyes,
Suburban Knight,
Hoover,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Fall,
Toni Rubio,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pantytec,
The Dirtbombs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lakeside,
Derrick Morgan,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rakim,
Brass Construction,
Alton Ellis,
Magma,
Letta Mbulu,
Cameo,
the Slits,
Roxette,
the Human League,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Khruangbin,
Wasted Youth,
U.S. Maple,
Black Sheep,
The Music Machine,
Schoolly D,
Public Enemy,
KRS-One,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Sonics,
Basic Channel,
Morten Harket,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
MDC,
X-102,
Nils Olav,
Boredoms,
Crispian St. Peters,
Spoonie Gee,
Scientists,
The Durutti Column,
Eurythmics, Eurythmics, Eurythmics, Eurythmics.
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.