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 Philippines and from Milan.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
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 Faraquet to the dance 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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Leaves,
Tommy Roe,
Boogie Down Productions,
John Holt,
Gabor Szabo,
Motorama,
Bill Wells,
Lou Reed,
Eric Dolphy,
The Durutti Column,
Oblivians,
Erykah Badu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Magazine,
Marc Almond,
The Monochrome Set,
Derrick May,
Model 500,
Janne Schatter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Delta 5,
Peter and Kerry,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Juan Atkins,
Fatback Band,
Arthur Verocai,
Warsaw,
Terry Callier,
Eve St. Jones,
Babytalk,
The Cramps,
Mary Jane Girls,
8 Eyed Spy,
Al Stewart,
Robert Hood,
Soft Cell,
Suburban Knight,
F. McDonald,
L. Decosne,
Television,
Todd Rundgren,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Chrome,
Cameo,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Victims,
Sam Rivers,
PIL,
The Gories,
the Swans,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rotary Connection,
Fear,
Blossom Toes,
The Evens,
Tubeway Army,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bob Dylan,
Ultra Naté,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bobby Hutcherson,
H. Thieme,
Deakin,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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.