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 Jordan and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 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 Amon Düül II to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Selector Dub Narcotic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
The American Breed,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Unrelated Segments,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fat Boys,
Smog,
Amon Düül II,
Niagra,
ABBA,
The Skatalites,
Drexciya,
Trumans Water,
Pet Shop Boys,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
E-Dancer,
Stiv Bators,
Magazine,
The Gun Club,
Amazonics,
Mars,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
New Age Steppers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Grass Roots,
Donny Hathaway,
Dave Gahan,
Crime,
Bootsy Collins,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rites of Spring,
Cybotron,
The Names,
the Soft Cell,
Tom Boy,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Absolute Body Control,
The Shadows of Knight,
Nirvana,
L. Decosne,
Hashim,
Schoolly D,
Max Romeo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bronski Beat,
Derrick Morgan,
Ituana,
Junior Murvin,
Barbara Tucker,
Kerrie Biddell,
Black Bananas,
The Fire Engines,
The Stooges,
Deakin,
Lakeside,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Slackers,
A Certain Ratio,
Joensuu 1685,
Visage,
Anakelly,
Sarah Menescal,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.