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 France and from Sao Paulo.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mexico City.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Shadows of Knight to the funk 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 Bush Tetras. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Shoche,
Joey Negro,
Rekid,
Barrington Levy,
The Mojo Men,
Mr. Review,
Arcadia,
Black Flag,
China Crisis,
Accadde A,
Bluetip,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rhythm & Sound,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Malaria!,
Kool Moe Dee,
Royal Trux,
The Selecter,
PIL,
Fifty Foot Hose,
D'Angelo,
Saccharine Trust,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Electric Prunes,
Reuben Wilson,
The Residents,
The Skatalites,
Severed Heads,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Isaac Hayes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Outsiders,
Maurizio,
Amazonics,
Sound Behaviour,
Amon Düül II,
Sonic Youth,
Pulsallama,
Marc Almond,
World's Most,
T. Rex,
Minny Pops,
Fela Kuti,
cv313,
Roxy Music,
Yusef Lateef,
The Blackbyrds,
Camberwell Now,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Sound,
The Star Department,
Blake Baxter,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pet Shop Boys,
Rod Modell,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.