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 Manchester.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 spring reverb 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 Masters at Work to the techno 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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Scratch Acid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Underground Resistance,
Max Romeo,
Big Daddy Kane,
Zero Boys,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Barracudas,
The Blackbyrds,
Skarface,
Dave Gahan,
The Fall,
Eddi Front,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Roger Hodgson,
Bob Dylan,
Yellowson,
Spandau Ballet,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Black Dice,
X-102,
Cymande,
Brass Construction,
In Retrospect,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Hoover,
The Offenders,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Move,
The Martian,
Technova,
Pagans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Donald Byrd,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Faust,
Panda Bear,
Iggy Pop,
Stockholm Monsters,
Erasure,
The Seeds,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ituana,
David Axelrod,
Rites of Spring,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eli Mardock,
The Litter,
The Dirtbombs,
Tom Boy,
FM Einheit,
Whodini,
Dawn Penn,
Soulsonic Force,
Pantytec,
Section 25,
Matthew Halsall,
Girls At Our Best!,
ABBA,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.