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 Liberia and from Lagos.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Laurel Aitken to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hoover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Trojans,
The American Breed,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ituana,
A Certain Ratio,
The Fuzztones,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Davy DMX,
Darondo,
Echospace,
The Fire Engines,
Nils Olav,
Jacob Miller,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bronski Beat,
The Doobie Brothers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Victims,
Hasil Adkins,
Altered Images,
Unwound,
June of 44,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
DJ Sneak,
T.S.O.L.,
Blancmange,
Aural Exciters,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Fluxion,
Graham Central Station,
Gong,
Von Mondo,
Schoolly D,
Pere Ubu,
DNA,
Bill Wells,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Dave Clark Five,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Interpol,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
John Holt,
Scion,
The Residents,
Leonard Cohen,
R.M.O.,
Funky Four + One,
The Black Dice,
Fatback Band,
Minor Threat,
Lightning Bolt,
The Buckinghams,
Black Flag,
Jeff Mills,
D'Angelo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Surgeon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Radio Birdman,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.