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 Sri Lanka and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Edmonton.
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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Smiths. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Depeche Mode record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
The Happenings,
Essential Logic,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sound Behaviour,
The Gladiators,
Radiohead,
Alphaville,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Drexciya,
The Mummies,
B.T. Express,
Deadbeat,
Iggy Pop,
Laurel Aitken,
Dave Gahan,
Interpol,
The Smiths,
Hoover,
Joe Smooth,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bauhaus,
The Last Poets,
Minor Threat,
Television,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
UT,
A Certain Ratio,
Pierre Henry,
Visage,
Janne Schatter,
Eurythmics,
Brass Construction,
Danielle Patucci,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Joensuu 1685,
Pet Shop Boys,
Altered Images,
Harpers Bizarre,
Althea and Donna,
Newcleus,
The Divine Comedy,
June of 44,
Lalann,
Peter & Gordon,
Bob Dylan,
Malaria!,
Graham Central Station,
Audionom,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
E-Dancer,
Bill Wells,
MC5,
Kas Product,
AZ,
The American Breed,
Nico,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gang Starr,
Magazine,
Ice-T,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.