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 Japan and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 guitar 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 The Busters to the jazz 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Arab on Radar,
Electric Light Orchestra,
E-Dancer,
Amon Düül II,
Pulsallama,
Soft Cell,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Searchers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mantronix,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Quando Quango,
Kurtis Blow,
Buzzcocks,
The Doobie Brothers,
Stiv Bators,
the Sonics,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
MC5,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Von Mondo,
Jeru the Damaja,
Hot Snakes,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sister Nancy,
Joy Division,
Unwound,
Black Sheep,
The Mummies,
The Neon Judgement,
Fugazi,
Minor Threat,
John Cale,
Danielle Patucci,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Reagan Youth,
T. Rex,
Mad Mike,
Pantaleimon,
Henry Cow,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Blues Magoos,
Wings,
Lindisfarne,
The Selecter,
The Stooges,
MDC,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bauhaus,
Iggy Pop,
Radiohead,
DJ Style,
Moebius,
Barrington Levy,
Thompson Twins,
Kerrie Biddell,
Darondo,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.