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 Morocco and from Stockholm.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Remains to the grime 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crash Course in Science record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dark Day,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Black Flag,
Soft Cell,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Marvin Gaye,
The Victims,
The Detroit Cobras,
Howard Jones,
Roxy Music,
Soul Sonic Force,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Wasted Youth,
The Human League,
Steve Hackett,
Lakeside,
The Dirtbombs,
Icehouse,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Brothers Johnson,
One Last Wish,
Donny Hathaway,
Rakim,
Alison Limerick,
the Soft Cell,
Bush Tetras,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bizarre Inc.,
Boz Scaggs,
X-102,
Loose Ends,
Stereo Dub,
Curtis Mayfield,
Blossom Toes,
Agent Orange,
The Monochrome Set,
Camouflage,
The United States of America,
The Vogues,
Michelle Simonal,
Eden Ahbez,
Moebius,
The J.B.'s,
Derrick May,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Tremeloes,
A Certain Ratio,
The Young Rascals,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Junior Murvin,
Bobby Womack,
Unwound,
Iggy Pop,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Neon Judgement,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Toni Rubio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.