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 Israel and from Taipei.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson to the electroclash 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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
John Lydon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Charles Mingus,
Masters at Work,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Loose Ends,
JFA,
Minnie Riperton,
Funkadelic,
Rufus Thomas,
Nico,
The Golliwogs,
Visage,
Fad Gadget,
The Moody Blues,
Fugazi,
Jeff Lynne,
Dave Gahan,
Lou Christie,
Drive Like Jehu,
Blancmange,
Supertramp,
Big Daddy Kane,
Moby Grape,
Cameo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Anakelly,
Letta Mbulu,
Bill Near,
Monolake,
Gastr Del Sol,
June of 44,
Procol Harum,
Archie Shepp,
U.S. Maple,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nils Olav,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Soft Cell,
DJ Sneak,
Pagans,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nick Fraelich,
Soul II Soul,
Agent Orange,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Audionom,
Theoretical Girls,
Isaac Hayes,
Aloha Tigers,
Aswad,
The Kinks,
Monks,
Surgeon,
Spandau Ballet,
Sällskapet,
Kas Product,
Talk Talk,
Symarip,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
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.