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 Costa Rica and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
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 Cymande to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 F. McDonald. All the underground hits.
All The Blues Magoos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
Matthew Bourne,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Scientists,
Altered Images,
Q and Not U,
Pharoah Sanders,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nas,
Buzzcocks,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sugar Minott,
Susan Cadogan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Zeros,
Ten City,
Prince Buster,
Todd Terry,
A Certain Ratio,
Television Personalities,
Main Source,
Bobby Byrd,
Popol Vuh,
Parry Music,
Average White Band,
Sam Rivers,
Supertramp,
E-Dancer,
Skarface,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The J.B.'s,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Soul Sonic Force,
John Coltrane,
Cheater Slicks,
Kurtis Blow,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Patti Smith,
the Bar-Kays,
Siglo XX,
David Axelrod,
Public Enemy,
The Index,
Wings,
Wally Richardson,
Gong,
Flamin' Groovies,
Joey Negro,
The Red Krayola,
Scan 7,
Reuben Wilson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pagans,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Move,
Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum.
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.