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 Montenegro and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 EPMD to the rock 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 The Cramps. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
Vladislav Delay,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Avey Tare,
L. Decosne,
The Fugs,
Skaos,
Godley & Creme,
Visage,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wally Richardson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Pop Group,
Icehouse,
The J.B.'s,
DNA,
Eric Dolphy,
The Cure,
Minor Threat,
Banda Bassotti,
Alice Coltrane,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Leaves,
Nils Olav,
Liliput,
The Doors,
Television,
The Associates,
Interpol,
Groovy Waters,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Unwound,
Leonard Cohen,
Moby Grape,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bill Wells,
Eric B and Rakim,
Steve Hackett,
The Moleskins,
Reuben Wilson,
Sister Nancy,
Roxy Music,
John Foxx,
Patti Smith,
H. Thieme,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lou Christie,
Max Romeo,
Nico,
Zero Boys,
Shoche,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Yellowson,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rakim,
The Misunderstood,
Barrington Levy,
Smog,
The Star Department,
Tubeway Army,
John Lydon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Victims,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.