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 Belgium and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Mad Mike to the crunk 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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Birthday Party 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
The Durutti Column,
Robert Görl,
Joy Division,
Barbara Tucker,
Skarface,
Youth Brigade,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brass Construction,
Sugar Minott,
Circle Jerks,
Gichy Dan,
Basic Channel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sex Pistols,
Marcia Griffiths,
Wally Richardson,
Lebanon Hanover,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Blake Baxter,
Main Source,
MC5,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soulsonic Force,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Babytalk,
Gabor Szabo,
Bronski Beat,
U.S. Maple,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Young Marble Giants,
Reagan Youth,
These Immortal Souls,
Tim Buckley,
Nils Olav,
MDC,
Massinfluence,
Judy Mowatt,
Tres Demented,
Trumans Water,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Blancmange,
Joe Finger,
Spandau Ballet,
Chris & Cosey,
Moby Grape,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Invisible,
Guru Guru,
DJ Sneak,
Surgeon,
Soft Cell,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lyres,
The Slits,
Index,
Soft Machine,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Star Department,
Bluetip,
Minutemen,
Brothers Johnson,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.