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 United States and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Salvador.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Yusef Lateef to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Star Department record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Eurythmics,
Hoover,
Boogie Down Productions,
Blake Baxter,
Stetsasonic,
Steve Hackett,
The Zeros,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Lydon,
Supertramp,
Underground Resistance,
Stiv Bators,
Malaria!,
LL Cool J,
Cluster,
The Fire Engines,
Lower 48,
Parry Music,
Angry Samoans,
Mo-Dettes,
The Monochrome Set,
Gabor Szabo,
Ultravox,
The Martian,
James White and The Blacks,
The Toasters,
These Immortal Souls,
The Blackbyrds,
The Selecter,
Pulsallama,
a-ha,
Vladislav Delay,
Yusef Lateef,
Susan Cadogan,
Thompson Twins,
Albert Ayler,
The Standells,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jawbox,
Tubeway Army,
Kurtis Blow,
Zapp,
Ronnie Foster,
Massinfluence,
Colin Newman,
The Pretty Things,
Second Layer,
Negative Approach,
Cymande,
Pussy Galore,
Black Sheep,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Saccharine Trust,
Faraquet,
The Fuzztones,
Jeff Lynne,
Trumans Water,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.