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 China and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the organ 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 Colin Newman to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
World's Most,
Derrick May,
Section 25,
Oblivians,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rod Modell,
Gastr Del Sol,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Metal Thangz,
Gang of Four,
The American Breed,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Dead C,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Popol Vuh,
Fela Kuti,
The Stooges,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Mojo Men,
John Cale,
Mars,
48th St. Collective,
The Modern Lovers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Swell Maps,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Neon Judgement,
Youth Brigade,
Laurel Aitken,
Q and Not U,
Pharoah Sanders,
Glambeats Corp.,
David McCallum,
Soft Cell,
KRS-One,
The Smoke,
Joy Division,
Y Pants,
The Associates,
the Human League,
Urselle,
The Slackers,
Severed Heads,
Chrome,
Unrelated Segments,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Sonics,
Crispian St. Peters,
U.S. Maple,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Main Source,
Bobby Byrd,
Blake Baxter,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Brothers Johnson,
Royal Trux,
Wally Richardson,
Index,
Arcadia,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rekid,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.