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 Gambia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Skarface to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
These Immortal Souls,
The Associates,
Morten Harket,
Robert Wyatt,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Neon Judgement,
June Days,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Leaves,
Alphaville,
JFA,
Spoonie Gee,
The Gladiators,
Soft Machine,
Crime,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Tremeloes,
Joyce Sims,
The Cowsills,
Fatback Band,
The United States of America,
The Doors,
Parry Music,
Grauzone,
Marvin Gaye,
Gang Starr,
Motorama,
Lou Christie,
Q and Not U,
Boogie Down Productions,
Yazoo,
Harmonia,
Visage,
Chris & Cosey,
Graham Central Station,
CMW,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
New York Dolls,
Underground Resistance,
Rapeman,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Youth Brigade,
Anakelly,
Byron Stingily,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jesper Dahlback,
Jeff Mills,
Agent Orange,
Deadbeat,
Throbbing Gristle,
Zapp,
FM Einheit,
Man Eating Sloth,
Warsaw,
Funky Four + One,
Rites of Spring,
Michelle Simonal,
Man Parrish,
DJ Sneak,
Black Flag,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.