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 Congo and from Glasgow.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Seoul.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Motorama to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
The Doors,
Minutemen,
JFA,
Lakeside,
The Blues Magoos,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kool Moe Dee,
Alison Limerick,
Trumans Water,
Peter & Gordon,
Adolescents,
the Association,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Foxx,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Simply Red,
Danielle Patucci,
Bootsy Collins,
The Standells,
The Pop Group,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
New Age Steppers,
David McCallum,
Fatback Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
Circle Jerks,
AZ,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Slits,
Dennis Brown,
Loose Ends,
Jacob Miller,
Max Romeo,
Model 500,
Leonard Cohen,
Sällskapet,
The Busters,
Sandy B,
Byron Stingily,
Bluetip,
Lou Christie,
Crooked Eye,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
A Certain Ratio,
Suicide,
Saccharine Trust,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lucky Dragons,
New Order,
Panda Bear,
Grandmaster Flash,
Connie Case,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Iggy Pop,
Susan Cadogan,
The Walker Brothers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Hasil Adkins,
Youth Brigade,
Livin' Joy,
Steve Hackett,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.