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 Lithuania and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Madrid and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 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 Mantronix 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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siglo XX,
Tubeway Army,
Sister Nancy,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Leaves,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Underground Resistance,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Surgeon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Masters at Work,
Organ,
Tears for Fears,
Livin' Joy,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Eden Ahbez,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scrapy,
Scion,
The Victims,
Outsiders,
Tomorrow,
Matthew Halsall,
Slick Rick,
Alton Ellis,
Little Man,
Freddie Wadling,
Cheater Slicks,
Cybotron,
Nation of Ulysses,
Schoolly D,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pere Ubu,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sun Ra,
Crash Course in Science,
The Associates,
The United States of America,
Davy DMX,
Minor Threat,
Black Bananas,
Sound Behaviour,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Susan Cadogan,
Flamin' Groovies,
Unrelated Segments,
The Slackers,
Country Teasers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
This Heat,
Pulsallama,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Godley & Creme,
H. Thieme,
Sonic Youth,
Moss Icon,
The Count Five,
Nick Fraelich,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.