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 Laos and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Man Parrish to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Newcleus. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
The Dave Clark Five,
Chris Corsano,
Hashim,
John Lydon,
Swans,
Johnny Clarke,
Nation of Ulysses,
OOIOO,
New Order,
Smog,
Audionom,
Blake Baxter,
Lakeside,
Nirvana,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Unwound,
Graham Central Station,
Roxy Music,
Make Up,
Jacob Miller,
Mad Mike,
Siglo XX,
Fela Kuti,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bobby Sherman,
Dorothy Ashby,
Boz Scaggs,
The Knickerbockers,
Pylon,
Amon Düül,
Sexual Harrassment,
Second Layer,
The Buckinghams,
The Fall,
The Music Machine,
the Sonics,
Danielle Patucci,
Sparks,
the Germs,
Severed Heads,
Mary Jane Girls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rod Modell,
Echospace,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Basic Channel,
AZ,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scan 7,
DJ Sneak,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Standells,
The Names,
Public Enemy,
Pierre Henry,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.