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 Indonesia and from Johannesburg.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Techniques to the techno 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 Eric Copeland. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The New Christs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Black Dice,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Parry Music,
Arthur Verocai,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Neil Young,
Supertramp,
Gabor Szabo,
Sparks,
MDC,
One Last Wish,
Nik Kershaw,
The Fall,
Bush Tetras,
ABC,
Banda Bassotti,
H. Thieme,
Man Eating Sloth,
Mr. Review,
Pulsallama,
Deakin,
cv313,
Henry Cow,
Nils Olav,
Pole,
Pylon,
Nation of Ulysses,
Howard Jones,
PIL,
World's Most,
Oblivians,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ultra Naté,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pantytec,
Groovy Waters,
The Skatalites,
Talk Talk,
Eurythmics,
The Moody Blues,
Todd Rundgren,
Fluxion,
the Normal,
Amon Düül II,
The Stooges,
The Martian,
Dawn Penn,
Rod Modell,
David McCallum,
The Move,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ice-T,
Ornette Coleman,
Visage,
Barrington Levy,
Public Enemy,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.