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 London.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 marimba 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 Lightning Bolt to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fat Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fall,
Nik Kershaw,
The American Breed,
Interpol,
Gabor Szabo,
Derrick Morgan,
Trumans Water,
Steve Hackett,
Sugar Minott,
Isaac Hayes,
The Leaves,
the Slits,
Bobby Womack,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kevin Saunderson,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Electric Prunes,
Niagra,
MDC,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Tremeloes,
Don Cherry,
Ultravox,
The Pretty Things,
Electric Prunes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Erasure,
Marmalade,
New Order,
R.M.O.,
David Bowie,
The Monochrome Set,
Chris Corsano,
PIL,
Scientists,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Skarface,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Morten Harket,
The Gories,
The Detroit Cobras,
Eddi Front,
Dual Sessions,
The Birthday Party,
Ornette Coleman,
Dennis Brown,
Blossom Toes,
T.S.O.L.,
the Human League,
Radio Birdman,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Vladislav Delay,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Avey Tare,
Khruangbin,
The Zeros,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
F. McDonald,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pulsallama,
Agitation Free,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.