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 France and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Mantronix to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
One Last Wish,
The Pretty Things,
B.T. Express,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Soulsonic Force,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bizarre Inc.,
Henry Cow,
Toni Rubio,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Half Japanese,
Dawn Penn,
Lalo Schifrin,
MDC,
Vladislav Delay,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Grauzone,
10cc,
Television,
Public Enemy,
Ronan,
Babytalk,
The Barracudas,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Buckinghams,
The Mummies,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Monolake,
The Stooges,
Goldenarms,
Excepter,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Television Personalities,
June of 44,
Blossom Toes,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Buzzcocks,
Hashim,
Josef K,
Metal Thangz,
EPMD,
Skaos,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Techniques,
Fatback Band,
Subhumans,
the Soft Cell,
Harry Pussy,
Wire,
Camouflage,
The American Breed,
Fear,
Lyres,
Schoolly D,
Wasted Youth,
Terrestrial Tones,
Todd Rundgren,
U.S. Maple,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.