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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Mexico City.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the disco 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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The United States of America record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Icehouse,
Amon Düül,
Ronan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Funkadelic,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Circle Jerks,
Technova,
Sexual Harrassment,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cheater Slicks,
Bob Dylan,
OOIOO,
Mo-Dettes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Thee Headcoats,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kurtis Blow,
Flamin' Groovies,
ABC,
Lebanon Hanover,
Graham Central Station,
Gang of Four,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pole,
Chrome,
The Fall,
T. Rex,
Swell Maps,
The Martian,
Moby Grape,
Stiv Bators,
Skaos,
Stereo Dub,
David Bowie,
Robert Wyatt,
Brothers Johnson,
Soft Cell,
The Divine Comedy,
The Fortunes,
Bang On A Can,
Terry Callier,
The Sonics,
Quantec,
the Swans,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Urselle,
UT,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
F. McDonald,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Angels of Light,
Liliput,
Michelle Simonal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Sound,
Essential Logic,
Gang Starr,
Suburban Knight,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.