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 Portugal and from Copenhagen.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Davy DMX,
The Knickerbockers,
F. McDonald,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Remains,
Isaac Hayes,
Animal Collective,
Tim Buckley,
Tomorrow,
The Monochrome Set,
Boredoms,
Zapp,
MC5,
Television Personalities,
Nik Kershaw,
Lightning Bolt,
The Buckinghams,
Slick Rick,
Quadrant,
Tears for Fears,
David Axelrod,
Das Ding,
Masters at Work,
Malaria!,
Faust,
The Offenders,
Joyce Sims,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Hoover,
Brick,
Darondo,
Ten City,
Henry Cow,
One Last Wish,
Urselle,
Smog,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rhythm & Sound,
Boogie Down Productions,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Joe Smooth,
H. Thieme,
Al Stewart,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lebanon Hanover,
T.S.O.L.,
Soul II Soul,
The Evens,
Godley & Creme,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Boz Scaggs,
Infiniti,
The Doobie Brothers,
Fela Kuti,
Country Teasers,
Lungfish,
Morten Harket,
Skaos,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Scientists,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.