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 Malaysia and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Stereo Dub to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Prince Buster 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Silicon Teens,
Ice-T,
Babytalk,
John Cale,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Moleskins,
Chris & Cosey,
David Axelrod,
The Slits,
Reagan Youth,
Camouflage,
Leonard Cohen,
Agitation Free,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dawn Penn,
The Busters,
Robert Wyatt,
Roy Ayers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Slackers,
Monks,
Rhythm & Sound,
OOIOO,
Barry Ungar,
Juan Atkins,
Nas,
8 Eyed Spy,
Nick Fraelich,
The Walker Brothers,
The Motions,
Charles Mingus,
Tomorrow,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Goldenarms,
Ossler,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sun City Girls,
Dave Gahan,
Susan Cadogan,
Hasil Adkins,
Glenn Branca,
E-Dancer,
Index,
Idris Muhammad,
MDC,
The Human League,
Motorama,
Anthony Braxton,
the Slits,
The Saints,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Amon Düül,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Boz Scaggs,
Jerry's Kids,
The Evens,
The Knickerbockers,
Carl Craig,
The American Breed,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.