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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Lille.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Dawn Penn to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tommy Roe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
The Monochrome Set,
The Move,
David McCallum,
Procol Harum,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Yaz,
the Swans,
Arab on Radar,
Essential Logic,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Zero Boys,
Rapeman,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sparks,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Isaac Hayes,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Smoke,
Ronnie Foster,
Eric Copeland,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rod Modell,
Nick Fraelich,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Magma,
Grauzone,
The Walker Brothers,
X-102,
Fugazi,
Jeru the Damaja,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Fall,
Au Pairs,
The Music Machine,
Roxy Music,
Qualms,
Piero Umiliani,
The Doors,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kerrie Biddell,
Faust,
Visage,
Hasil Adkins,
Pharoah Sanders,
LL Cool J,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Skatalites,
Barbara Tucker,
These Immortal Souls,
Connie Case,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bizarre Inc.,
Liliput,
John Lydon,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.