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 New Zealand and from Mexico City.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the organ 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 Fear to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sandy B. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Marshall Jefferson,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Supertramp,
The Sonics,
The Misunderstood,
B.T. Express,
Johnny Osbourne,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Deepchord,
Kayak,
X-102,
Eddi Front,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
X-101,
D'Angelo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Unrelated Segments,
Camouflage,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Visage,
Country Teasers,
Rites of Spring,
The Fortunes,
Dave Gahan,
Fugazi,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Blackbyrds,
Ken Boothe,
Nirvana,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sun City Girls,
Clear Light,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Slick Rick,
The Real Kids,
the Bar-Kays,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Thee Headcoats,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Animal Collective,
The Pretty Things,
Tim Buckley,
The Slackers,
The Martian,
Spoonie Gee,
Glenn Branca,
the Human League,
Jacques Brel,
The Black Dice,
The Vogues,
Marmalade,
Drexciya,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dennis Brown,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.