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 Nauru and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 Mexico City and Calgary.
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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the electroclash 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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
Country Teasers,
Moby Grape,
Eddi Front,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Real Kids,
Niagra,
Fluxion,
Crime,
Zapp,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
La Düsseldorf,
Hasil Adkins,
Section 25,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ronan,
Warsaw,
Massinfluence,
Erasure,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Junior Murvin,
Procol Harum,
Throbbing Gristle,
Mr. Review,
Godley & Creme,
Scrapy,
Jimmy McGriff,
Harmonia,
Rekid,
Lakeside,
B.T. Express,
New Age Steppers,
Goldenarms,
Underground Resistance,
LL Cool J,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Average White Band,
In Retrospect,
Blancmange,
Dual Sessions,
Eurythmics,
Pere Ubu,
Maleditus Sound,
D'Angelo,
Television,
Suicide,
The Saints,
The Durutti Column,
Tubeway Army,
Yaz,
Aural Exciters,
Magazine,
One Last Wish,
The Leaves,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Stereo Dub,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Quadrant,
Fad Gadget,
Lower 48,
Stetsasonic,
Arcadia,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.