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 Turkey and from Salvador.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Hashim to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Walker Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Radiopuhelimet,
T.S.O.L.,
Jacques Brel,
Lower 48,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Neil Young,
Warren Ellis,
Roxy Music,
The Neon Judgement,
Marvin Gaye,
Con Funk Shun,
Brass Construction,
X-101,
Fluxion,
Lebanon Hanover,
Liliput,
Susan Cadogan,
Lungfish,
Terry Callier,
Reagan Youth,
The Human League,
Soul II Soul,
Television,
Jerry's Kids,
Cal Tjader,
Amazonics,
Big Daddy Kane,
Delta 5,
8 Eyed Spy,
Anakelly,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gang Starr,
Vladislav Delay,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Young Marble Giants,
Saccharine Trust,
Subhumans,
Loose Ends,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Pop Group,
Quando Quango,
Grey Daturas,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lyres,
Jesper Dahlback,
In Retrospect,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Remains,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Gap Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pagans,
Deepchord,
Ice-T,
Half Japanese,
The Stooges,
The Evens,
Quadrant,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.