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 Iraq and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 L. Decosne to the rock 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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Divine Comedy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ralphi Rosario,
cv313,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Newcleus,
AZ,
UT,
Con Funk Shun,
The Walker Brothers,
Drexciya,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Livin' Joy,
Stetsasonic,
The Modern Lovers,
Silicon Teens,
Section 25,
Basic Channel,
E-Dancer,
the Sonics,
The Skatalites,
Arthur Verocai,
The Victims,
Johnny Clarke,
Bad Manners,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lou Christie,
The Move,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Television Personalities,
Trumans Water,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lou Reed,
Vladislav Delay,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Amazonics,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jawbox,
Japan,
The Gladiators,
Vainqueur,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Main Source,
Pere Ubu,
Barbara Tucker,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Fortunes,
The Knickerbockers,
Boredoms,
Gang of Four,
Moss Icon,
David Bowie,
Delta 5,
Dennis Brown,
Lyres,
Sun City Girls,
Idris Muhammad,
Marvin Gaye,
Make Up,
Peter and Kerry,
KRS-One,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.