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 Togo and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Roxette to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
B.T. Express,
Joyce Sims,
Charles Mingus,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bootsy Collins,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Excepter,
Dual Sessions,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lou Reed,
Chris & Cosey,
The Monochrome Set,
Theoretical Girls,
Boogie Down Productions,
Robert Hood,
Peter & Gordon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kerrie Biddell,
Suicide,
Fela Kuti,
The Stooges,
Fatback Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Graham Central Station,
Moss Icon,
Eric B and Rakim,
Minutemen,
Sällskapet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Delta 5,
Easy Going,
The Dave Clark Five,
Maurizio,
Steve Hackett,
Joy Division,
Procol Harum,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Motions,
The Real Kids,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rakim,
Surgeon,
Jawbox,
The Cramps,
ABBA,
Ultra Naté,
Sandy B,
The United States of America,
Aural Exciters,
Brass Construction,
K-Klass,
Black Flag,
Toni Rubio,
These Immortal Souls,
Visage,
Goldenarms,
Sugar Minott,
DJ Style,
Symarip, Symarip, Symarip, Symarip.
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.