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 Russia and from Cairo.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Camberwell Now to the disco 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 The Last Poets. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
The Velvet Underground,
Nick Fraelich,
Carl Craig,
K-Klass,
The Happenings,
Michelle Simonal,
Wire,
Girls At Our Best!,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Black Pus,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rites of Spring,
the Soft Cell,
Robert Hood,
La Düsseldorf,
the Normal,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Radio Birdman,
the Sonics,
The Young Rascals,
This Heat,
Unrelated Segments,
the Association,
Minor Threat,
LL Cool J,
Thee Headcoats,
Toni Rubio,
Fela Kuti,
Curtis Mayfield,
Loose Ends,
Grauzone,
Kaleidoscope,
Absolute Body Control,
Nirvana,
Al Stewart,
The Human League,
B.T. Express,
Eddi Front,
Warren Ellis,
Organ,
The Gories,
Angry Samoans,
Sound Behaviour,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Stockholm Monsters,
Byron Stingily,
Qualms,
MC5,
Essential Logic,
Laurel Aitken,
Severed Heads,
Model 500,
Zero Boys,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Depeche Mode,
Jacob Miller,
Young Marble Giants,
Alphaville,
Letta Mbulu,
The Red Krayola,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.