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 Mozambique and from Lille.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Warren Ellis to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Inner City,
Sound Behaviour,
The Dead C,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lebanon Hanover,
Johnny Clarke,
The Move,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Fall,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Minor Threat,
Delta 5,
Echospace,
the Soft Cell,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Negative Approach,
The United States of America,
Adolescents,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dawn Penn,
Soulsonic Force,
JFA,
Graham Central Station,
Guru Guru,
Bronski Beat,
Erykah Badu,
Unwound,
Ultra Naté,
In Retrospect,
The Alarm Clocks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marvin Gaye,
Basic Channel,
Radiohead,
Bobby Byrd,
Ten City,
Rufus Thomas,
Gang of Four,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Magma,
Robert Wyatt,
The Young Rascals,
Wire,
Eli Mardock,
Pulsallama,
Qualms,
Lower 48,
The Invisible,
Rhythm & Sound,
Albert Ayler,
The Searchers,
The Monks,
David McCallum,
Average White Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rosa Yemen,
Junior Murvin,
The Barracudas,
Faraquet,
Ohio Players,
Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail.
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.