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 Kuwait and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Suburban Knight to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Girls At Our Best! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Evens,
Newcleus,
Funky Four + One,
Fugazi,
Sonny Sharrock,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Michelle Simonal,
Roy Ayers,
Mark Hollis,
Hoover,
Man Eating Sloth,
X-102,
Nils Olav,
Agitation Free,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Y Pants,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Magma,
Basic Channel,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Motions,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Drexciya,
Groovy Waters,
Quando Quango,
Deepchord,
Heaven 17,
Cameo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Peter & Gordon,
Scratch Acid,
DNA,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scientists,
Arab on Radar,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Zapp,
The Birthday Party,
Crime,
8 Eyed Spy,
Can,
Maurizio,
The Index,
Q65,
Peter and Kerry,
Supertramp,
Matthew Bourne,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lightning Bolt,
The Residents,
The New Christs,
Hashim,
The Golliwogs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Aural Exciters,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.