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 Finland and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Taipei.
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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Big Daddy Kane to the funk 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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
L. Decosne,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Reuben Wilson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Yusef Lateef,
Massinfluence,
Whodini,
Prince Buster,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Dawn Penn,
The Vogues,
Sister Nancy,
Jeff Lynne,
Minor Threat,
The Black Dice,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bill Wells,
Amon Düül II,
Harpers Bizarre,
Newcleus,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
the Germs,
Nik Kershaw,
Skarface,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Standells,
Hasil Adkins,
Jacques Brel,
New Order,
Scrapy,
David McCallum,
Arthur Verocai,
K-Klass,
Anthony Braxton,
Altered Images,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deepchord,
Brass Construction,
Soulsonic Force,
Al Stewart,
Joe Smooth,
Robert Wyatt,
Section 25,
Sound Behaviour,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Pretty Things,
Animal Collective,
Cybotron,
Marine Girls,
Gang of Four,
Rekid,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bluetip,
The Angels of Light,
Scan 7,
Scion,
The Mummies,
Make Up,
Isaac Hayes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Grass Roots,
Joy Division,
Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott.
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.