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 Sweden and from Shanghai.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
Neil Young,
Rekid,
Stereo Dub,
The Birthday Party,
David McCallum,
Agent Orange,
Bronski Beat,
Vainqueur,
Todd Rundgren,
Scion,
Procol Harum,
Sällskapet,
New Order,
Harmonia,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ten City,
B.T. Express,
Hoover,
Sarah Menescal,
Altered Images,
Crash Course in Science,
Adolescents,
The Durutti Column,
John Holt,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Thompson Twins,
The Remains,
Charles Mingus,
Patti Smith,
Ituana,
DNA,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Country Teasers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fatback Band,
Barclay James Harvest,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gang Green,
Wire,
Ultra Naté,
Outsiders,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Sonics,
Sonic Youth,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dave Gahan,
Brass Construction,
Donald Byrd,
Chris & Cosey,
Malaria!,
Rod Modell,
Unrelated Segments,
Minnie Riperton,
Make Up,
The Names,
Supertramp,
Junior Murvin,
The Count Five,
Bill Near,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Brand Nubian,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.