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 Kenya and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Skatalites to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
Agitation Free,
Derrick Morgan,
Scratch Acid,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Laurel Aitken,
Half Japanese,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mantronix,
The Standells,
The Real Kids,
Section 25,
Massinfluence,
Simply Red,
Duran Duran,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Quadrant,
Todd Terry,
Joensuu 1685,
Sonic Youth,
Steve Hackett,
Jeff Lynne,
The Divine Comedy,
Sällskapet,
Reagan Youth,
Arcadia,
Rotary Connection,
Marshall Jefferson,
Saccharine Trust,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Khruangbin,
The Modern Lovers,
Talk Talk,
The Wake,
Rites of Spring,
The Tremeloes,
Tim Buckley,
Slick Rick,
Ice-T,
The Leaves,
Johnny Osbourne,
Nick Fraelich,
Bizarre Inc.,
Traffic Nightmare,
Byron Stingily,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kaleidoscope,
Eurythmics,
Siglo XX,
Buzzcocks,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camouflage,
the Swans,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Trumans Water,
Unwound,
Jacques Brel,
Can,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Technova,
Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville.
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.