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 Malta and from Toronto.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Lou Reed 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 Soft Machine 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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Matthew Bourne,
The Zeros,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Eric B and Rakim,
Arab on Radar,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Fela Kuti,
Graham Central Station,
Second Layer,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pylon,
The Techniques,
Soul II Soul,
The Real Kids,
Agitation Free,
Tubeway Army,
Mission of Burma,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sugar Minott,
the Association,
X-Ray Spex,
Junior Murvin,
Prince Buster,
Quadrant,
The Golliwogs,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Star Department,
Dave Gahan,
Erasure,
Kerri Chandler,
Morten Harket,
Motorama,
Dennis Brown,
Steve Hackett,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Chris & Cosey,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Soft Cell,
Roxy Music,
Robert Görl,
The Associates,
Warsaw,
New York Dolls,
Little Man,
Flash Fearless,
The Slackers,
The Victims,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pole,
MC5,
Deadbeat,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lightning Bolt,
Wings,
Bauhaus,
The Skatalites,
Silicon Teens,
The Divine Comedy,
The Count Five,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.