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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Seoul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Bobby Womack to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Can,
Q and Not U,
Liliput,
Marvin Gaye,
Bluetip,
Cheater Slicks,
Negative Approach,
JFA,
Jeff Lynne,
Brand Nubian,
Fatback Band,
The Angels of Light,
Funkadelic,
Pagans,
X-101,
Bauhaus,
Sarah Menescal,
Ohio Players,
Mr. Review,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Alton Ellis,
Boredoms,
Glenn Branca,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Leonard Cohen,
The Wake,
Schoolly D,
Mo-Dettes,
The Residents,
Japan,
World's Most,
Matthew Bourne,
Yusef Lateef,
Suburban Knight,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fugs,
the Germs,
Panda Bear,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Duran Duran,
Agent Orange,
New Order,
Sixth Finger,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Pretty Things,
Marcia Griffiths,
Erasure,
The Dave Clark Five,
the Human League,
Half Japanese,
Gang of Four,
Stiv Bators,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Quando Quango,
Newcleus,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
David Bowie,
The Real Kids,
The Selecter,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.