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 Australia and from Jakarta.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Winnipeg.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the oboe 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 Bauhaus to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The United States of America record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Frankie Knuckles,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bronski Beat,
Quando Quango,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Shadows of Knight,
EPMD,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pole,
Simply Red,
Tubeway Army,
Popol Vuh,
Unrelated Segments,
Babytalk,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Young Marble Giants,
Agent Orange,
Rod Modell,
Outsiders,
Jerry's Kids,
The Cure,
Neu!,
The Angels of Light,
Grandmaster Flash,
Basic Channel,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lyres,
Theoretical Girls,
X-102,
Television,
Buzzcocks,
Man Eating Sloth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Avey Tare,
The Toasters,
DJ Style,
the Normal,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Litter,
Soft Cell,
Gang Starr,
Fad Gadget,
Cecil Taylor,
Camberwell Now,
The Sonics,
the Human League,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Flipper,
Yaz,
Pantaleimon,
Warren Ellis,
Andrew Hill,
Janne Schatter,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Dennis Brown,
The Standells,
The Fortunes,
Spandau Ballet,
Alice Coltrane,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.