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 Vietnam and from Toronto.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 the Human League to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Nas,
Groovy Waters,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eric Copeland,
John Foxx,
the Germs,
Judy Mowatt,
World's Most,
Davy DMX,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Deadbeat,
Grauzone,
New Order,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gastr Del Sol,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ohio Players,
Simply Red,
The Dave Clark Five,
Schoolly D,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter & Gordon,
Deakin,
Don Cherry,
This Heat,
Bronski Beat,
New Age Steppers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mars,
the Fania All-Stars,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Isaac Hayes,
Carl Craig,
Jeru the Damaja,
Talk Talk,
Sixth Finger,
Scrapy,
Eric B and Rakim,
Roy Ayers,
Babytalk,
Jandek,
8 Eyed Spy,
Excepter,
the Bar-Kays,
Interpol,
Camouflage,
Suicide,
Eddi Front,
Infiniti,
Joey Negro,
Scratch Acid,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Outsiders,
Young Marble Giants,
Das Ding,
The Zeros,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Letta Mbulu,
Ken Boothe,
Magazine,
Q65, Q65, Q65, Q65.
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.