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 Palau and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Wire to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Frankie Knuckles 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
Ronan,
The Barracudas,
Pylon,
Icehouse,
Judy Mowatt,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scratch Acid,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Average White Band,
Kerrie Biddell,
Smog,
Bootsy Collins,
Johnny Clarke,
the Sonics,
the Bar-Kays,
JFA,
Barrington Levy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jeff Lynne,
The Cramps,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Roxy Music,
Pole,
Sonic Youth,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rites of Spring,
Nils Olav,
Joensuu 1685,
Anakelly,
Fluxion,
Funky Four + One,
Ten City,
Kevin Saunderson,
Magma,
Black Bananas,
Vladislav Delay,
Tom Boy,
Mandrill,
Colin Newman,
Nas,
The Toasters,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Marine Girls,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pantytec,
the Germs,
Hasil Adkins,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fad Gadget,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Main Source,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Echospace,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.