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 St Lucia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Human League to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Drive Like Jehu,
Thompson Twins,
Ten City,
Rapeman,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
EPMD,
OOIOO,
Jandek,
Nils Olav,
The Modern Lovers,
PIL,
Bobby Sherman,
Youth Brigade,
Franke,
Hasil Adkins,
Trumans Water,
Sister Nancy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Grauzone,
the Soft Cell,
The Barracudas,
Suburban Knight,
Pagans,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Charles Mingus,
Royal Trux,
Lucky Dragons,
Organ,
The Blackbyrds,
Radiohead,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Neu!,
Sixth Finger,
Cymande,
X-Ray Spex,
X-102,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Reagan Youth,
the Bar-Kays,
It's A Beautiful Day,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Au Pairs,
Intrusion,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sällskapet,
The Gories,
Quando Quango,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fela Kuti,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ralphi Rosario,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Easy Going,
The Grass Roots,
Faust,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pere Ubu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lindisfarne,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.