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 Ivory Coast and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba 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 UT to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One 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?
Kevin Saunderson,
Average White Band,
Agent Orange,
The Searchers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Electric Prunes,
Index,
John Holt,
Scrapy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Groovy Waters,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Maleditus Sound,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
kango's stein massive,
Terrestrial Tones,
Johnny Clarke,
Arthur Verocai,
Suburban Knight,
Hashim,
David Axelrod,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Mummies,
Scientists,
Warren Ellis,
Howard Jones,
the Soft Cell,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pole,
The Barracudas,
Banda Bassotti,
Nik Kershaw,
Barbara Tucker,
Anakelly,
Robert Görl,
The Divine Comedy,
Al Stewart,
Eve St. Jones,
Thee Headcoats,
The Sound,
Sparks,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Offenders,
Robert Wyatt,
PIL,
Spoonie Gee,
Ultimate Spinach,
Reagan Youth,
Bang On A Can,
The Busters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Parry Music,
Television,
Inner City,
The Associates,
Glenn Branca,
James White and The Blacks,
Newcleus,
Gang of Four,
The Dirtbombs,
H. Thieme,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.