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 Argentina and from Sao Paulo.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the organ 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 cv313 to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dark Day,
The Wake,
Peter and Kerry,
New Age Steppers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Underground Resistance,
Babytalk,
Moss Icon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scion,
Vladislav Delay,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Guru Guru,
Clear Light,
Q65,
Warsaw,
Gong,
Archie Shepp,
Siglo XX,
Big Daddy Kane,
Second Layer,
Jandek,
Simply Red,
Amon Düül,
Main Source,
Black Sheep,
The Knickerbockers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pet Shop Boys,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Porter Ricks,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Yusef Lateef,
Television,
The Fuzztones,
The Raincoats,
Boz Scaggs,
Idris Muhammad,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
UT,
10cc,
Rapeman,
Josef K,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Moby Grape,
the Human League,
Crash Course in Science,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ludus,
Jawbox,
Danielle Patucci,
Accadde A,
Terrestrial Tones,
Aloha Tigers,
Visage,
FM Einheit,
Sugar Minott,
Electric Prunes,
F. McDonald,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.