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 Singapore and from Madrid.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 AZ to the disco 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 The Smiths. All the underground hits.
All Frankie Knuckles tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
The Cowsills,
John Cale,
Bobby Sherman,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ultra Naté,
Dawn Penn,
The Remains,
Intrusion,
Don Cherry,
Funky Four + One,
Marvin Gaye,
Soft Machine,
JFA,
Cal Tjader,
Alphaville,
John Foxx,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Detroit Cobras,
Q65,
Deepchord,
Peter and Kerry,
The Last Poets,
Robert Görl,
Depeche Mode,
Mo-Dettes,
The Standells,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Visage,
Qualms,
Iggy Pop,
Vladislav Delay,
Television Personalities,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Clear Light,
Liliput,
Ultimate Spinach,
Surgeon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Avey Tare,
Hasil Adkins,
D'Angelo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Underground Resistance,
The Fire Engines,
Can,
The Gories,
Shoche,
Eurythmics,
Kool Moe Dee,
Absolute Body Control,
The Gun Club,
Q and Not U,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bill Wells,
Talk Talk,
A Certain Ratio,
Motorama,
Scratch Acid,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.