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 Korea South and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 Philadelphia and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 In Retrospect to the disco 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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lou Christie,
Agent Orange,
The Zeros,
Babytalk,
Rotary Connection,
Deadbeat,
Junior Murvin,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
kango's stein massive,
Amon Düül,
The Motions,
DJ Style,
The Birthday Party,
Brand Nubian,
Joe Smooth,
Gichy Dan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mantronix,
The Techniques,
Chris & Cosey,
AZ,
Patti Smith,
Pole,
Eric Dolphy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
EPMD,
Saccharine Trust,
Glambeats Corp.,
Cheater Slicks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jacques Brel,
Malaria!,
China Crisis,
Morten Harket,
L. Decosne,
Albert Ayler,
The Sound,
Bang On A Can,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
JFA,
Wasted Youth,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
John Lydon,
Todd Rundgren,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Sonics,
Outsiders,
Nik Kershaw,
The United States of America,
John Cale,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Mad Mike,
Urselle,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Move,
Roy Ayers,
Aural Exciters,
The Red Krayola,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.