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 Austria and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Pantaleimon to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Cell,
The Human League,
The Happenings,
Japan,
Oblivians,
Silicon Teens,
Little Man,
10cc,
Radiopuhelimet,
Brick,
Kool Moe Dee,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Zapp,
Iggy Pop,
Jerry's Kids,
Alison Limerick,
Marcia Griffiths,
Smog,
Susan Cadogan,
Lyres,
Tim Buckley,
Babytalk,
Negative Approach,
Monolake,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jesper Dahlback,
Quando Quango,
The Walker Brothers,
Moebius,
Agitation Free,
The Raincoats,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Minnie Riperton,
Ohio Players,
Delon & Dalcan,
Black Bananas,
U.S. Maple,
China Crisis,
the Slits,
Sarah Menescal,
The Blues Magoos,
Marshall Jefferson,
Erykah Badu,
Swans,
Franke,
Au Pairs,
The Gories,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Tom Boy,
Eli Mardock,
Television,
Con Funk Shun,
Basic Channel,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bobby Byrd,
The Mojo Men,
Colin Newman,
Bronski Beat,
The Real Kids,
The Beau Brummels,
Parry Music,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.