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 Kyrgyzstan and from Paris.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 linndrum 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 Dark Day to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marmalade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultravox,
Kas Product,
Technova,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Jeru the Damaja,
In Retrospect,
Laurel Aitken,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Groovy Waters,
Johnny Clarke,
Goldenarms,
Terry Callier,
Lalo Schifrin,
Essential Logic,
Trumans Water,
World's Most,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rakim,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Misunderstood,
Godley & Creme,
Monolake,
Todd Terry,
Jesper Dahlback,
MDC,
Yellowson,
DNA,
The Black Dice,
Sugar Minott,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Wolf Eyes,
Fad Gadget,
T.S.O.L.,
Bad Manners,
Jeff Mills,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Skatalites,
The United States of America,
the Human League,
The Techniques,
The Blackbyrds,
The Fugs,
The Gories,
Liliput,
Lakeside,
The Cramps,
Marine Girls,
Eddi Front,
Erykah Badu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dave Gahan,
Albert Ayler,
Eve St. Jones,
Alison Limerick,
The Smoke,
The Count Five,
Average White Band,
The Moody Blues,
June Days, June Days, June Days, June Days.
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.