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 Madagascar and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 808 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 Morten Harket to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Talk Talk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Todd Rundgren,
Sparks,
Arthur Verocai,
Bobby Sherman,
Easy Going,
Minny Pops,
Ludus,
Technova,
Bobby Womack,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Invisible,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pantytec,
Danielle Patucci,
The Toasters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Average White Band,
Pulsallama,
CMW,
Johnny Clarke,
Fugazi,
Soulsonic Force,
China Crisis,
Matthew Halsall,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Walker Brothers,
Oblivians,
Ice-T,
Johnny Osbourne,
This Heat,
The Angels of Light,
Mars,
Howard Jones,
Hoover,
Chris Corsano,
Funkadelic,
These Immortal Souls,
Deadbeat,
The Flesh Eaters,
Y Pants,
LL Cool J,
Max Romeo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Charles Mingus,
Black Sheep,
the Sonics,
The Five Americans,
Wasted Youth,
Nils Olav,
The J.B.'s,
Grauzone,
Hasil Adkins,
Michelle Simonal,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kurtis Blow,
the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays.
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.