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 Bahrain and from Bremen.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Supertramp to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gang Gang Dance,
Camouflage,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Agitation Free,
Stereo Dub,
Groovy Waters,
The Moody Blues,
Scratch Acid,
Lungfish,
Pole,
Underground Resistance,
Grandmaster Flash,
X-101,
The Offenders,
Dennis Brown,
Roger Hodgson,
Aswad,
The Happenings,
The American Breed,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rites of Spring,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Warsaw,
Parry Music,
Eurythmics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lalo Schifrin,
Siglo XX,
Jeff Lynne,
Rapeman,
Average White Band,
The Invisible,
Harry Pussy,
The Mummies,
Soft Cell,
Slave,
Kaleidoscope,
Crime,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Vogues,
Andrew Hill,
Half Japanese,
Black Sheep,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Girls At Our Best!,
Accadde A,
Marmalade,
Ronan,
Faraquet,
These Immortal Souls,
Connie Case,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
John Cale,
Talk Talk,
Malaria!,
Glambeats Corp.,
Henry Cow,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.