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 Albania and from New York.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 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 Easy Going to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobbi Humphrey 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
FM Einheit,
Ronan,
ABC,
The Misunderstood,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Blossom Toes,
David Bowie,
Alton Ellis,
Rotary Connection,
The Skatalites,
The Smoke,
Scratch Acid,
Derrick Morgan,
The Techniques,
OOIOO,
Glambeats Corp.,
Minny Pops,
Man Eating Sloth,
Carl Craig,
the Human League,
Kaleidoscope,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Howard Jones,
Y Pants,
Blake Baxter,
The Seeds,
Lindisfarne,
David Axelrod,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Invisible,
Pharoah Sanders,
Henry Cow,
Royal Trux,
AZ,
The Fugs,
Bob Dylan,
Letta Mbulu,
Camberwell Now,
Hoover,
The Sonics,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lucky Dragons,
Amazonics,
The Black Dice,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sister Nancy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Divine Comedy,
The Alarm Clocks,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Joyce Sims,
Rekid,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ken Boothe,
Hasil Adkins,
Bronski Beat,
Gang of Four,
Procol Harum,
Aural Exciters,
Infiniti,
Little Man,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.