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 Kiribati and from Madrid.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 guitar 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 Harpers Bizarre to the disco 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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Moebius,
Urselle,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Gap Band,
Nirvana,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jeru the Damaja,
Thee Headcoats,
Negative Approach,
Minny Pops,
The Dirtbombs,
Procol Harum,
Ice-T,
Kenny Larkin,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lebanon Hanover,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Dennis Brown,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Martian,
Peter and Kerry,
Television,
Donald Byrd,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Remains,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Flesh Eaters,
Hashim,
The Young Rascals,
Ten City,
KRS-One,
Tommy Roe,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jawbox,
Ultra Naté,
The Wake,
Scientists,
The Durutti Column,
DNA,
Country Teasers,
Arcadia,
Don Cherry,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Motions,
Cluster,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joensuu 1685,
Soft Cell,
Scratch Acid,
Unwound,
Mad Mike,
Patti Smith,
Carl Craig,
Technova,
Suicide,
The Cramps,
Johnny Osbourne,
Whodini,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pantytec,
Bill Wells,
Boogie Down Productions,
Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas.
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.