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 Cambodia and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 mellotron 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 Thompson Twins to the electroclash 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Freddie Wadling record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Motorama,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sun City Girls,
Brass Construction,
Radiohead,
John Foxx,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Quantec,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bluetip,
LL Cool J,
Delta 5,
Nation of Ulysses,
Drive Like Jehu,
Metal Thangz,
Nico,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Wolf Eyes,
Flash Fearless,
Eurythmics,
Mary Jane Girls,
Joe Finger,
Kevin Saunderson,
Dawn Penn,
Todd Rundgren,
The Names,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Roy Ayers,
Jerry's Kids,
Sixth Finger,
Model 500,
Tomorrow,
Ludus,
Boz Scaggs,
The Sonics,
Con Funk Shun,
Mission of Burma,
Outsiders,
D'Angelo,
Yazoo,
Simply Red,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lower 48,
The Flesh Eaters,
Eden Ahbez,
Agitation Free,
Banda Bassotti,
Bobby Sherman,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Mummies,
Kayak,
Piero Umiliani,
The Electric Prunes,
JFA,
Niagra,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dual Sessions,
The Fugs,
Funky Four + One,
Eric B and Rakim,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.