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 Vanuatu and from Manila.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Anakelly to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 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. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Albert Ayler,
Altered Images,
Hoover,
Alphaville,
Drexciya,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nico,
Althea and Donna,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Techniques,
Adolescents,
Nas,
Buzzcocks,
Television,
Supertramp,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Walker Brothers,
Sun Ra,
Television Personalities,
Half Japanese,
The Searchers,
Minutemen,
Peter and Kerry,
Audionom,
The Fortunes,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sly & The Family Stone,
the Swans,
Ultra Naté,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bluetip,
The Five Americans,
Wolf Eyes,
Barbara Tucker,
Sam Rivers,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Arthur Verocai,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Cosmic Jokers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Massinfluence,
The Blackbyrds,
Popol Vuh,
Graham Central Station,
8 Eyed Spy,
Mandrill,
Patti Smith,
Avey Tare,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Monochrome Set,
The Divine Comedy,
Peter & Gordon,
Soft Cell,
Moby Grape,
Gabor Szabo,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.