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 Panama and from Mumbai.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sun City Girls to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spandau Ballet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Andrew Hill,
Infiniti,
Gang Gang Dance,
Mary Jane Girls,
A Certain Ratio,
Patti Smith,
Arcadia,
Letta Mbulu,
Howard Jones,
LL Cool J,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Electric Light Orchestra,
T.S.O.L.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Symarip,
Pulsallama,
Alton Ellis,
48th St. Collective,
Roxette,
Agitation Free,
Smog,
The Neon Judgement,
Soulsonic Force,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Moody Blues,
Shoche,
Bauhaus,
Dave Gahan,
Sun Ra,
Swans,
Neu!,
Wings,
Essential Logic,
Amazonics,
Avey Tare,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Absolute Body Control,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Carl Craig,
Soul II Soul,
Liliput,
Deepchord,
Sparks,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Joyce Sims,
Lyres,
Young Marble Giants,
Kerri Chandler,
Duran Duran,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
PIL,
Swell Maps,
Crime,
Davy DMX,
Can,
The Angels of Light,
Flipper,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.