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 Djibouti and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lebanon Hanover to the jazz 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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moody Blues 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Lower 48,
Scan 7,
Shuggie Otis,
Dennis Brown,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Japan,
Dave Gahan,
the Human League,
Sparks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Letta Mbulu,
Godley & Creme,
Dual Sessions,
June of 44,
Ronan,
Connie Case,
Roxy Music,
Freddie Wadling,
Maurizio,
Matthew Halsall,
Fad Gadget,
Piero Umiliani,
Michelle Simonal,
Yaz,
Y Pants,
Livin' Joy,
The Flesh Eaters,
Television Personalities,
Dorothy Ashby,
Half Japanese,
Mad Mike,
The Litter,
Brick,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
X-101,
Skriet,
The Skatalites,
Alphaville,
Brass Construction,
T. Rex,
Nico,
The Knickerbockers,
Young Marble Giants,
PIL,
Barrington Levy,
Marmalade,
DJ Sneak,
Archie Shepp,
Groovy Waters,
The Misunderstood,
Traffic Nightmare,
Underground Resistance,
ABBA,
Ohio Players,
Goldenarms,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.