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 Comoros and from Sao Paulo.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 X-102 to the rock 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 Circle Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Max Romeo,
Tom Boy,
Brick,
Yellowson,
The Move,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Radiopuhelimet,
Joyce Sims,
Massinfluence,
a-ha,
Faraquet,
PIL,
Kaleidoscope,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Zero Boys,
Kurtis Blow,
Camberwell Now,
Kerri Chandler,
Jeff Mills,
The Blackbyrds,
Half Japanese,
Reagan Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lucky Dragons,
Ultravox,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Remains,
Whodini,
Bootsy Collins,
Jesper Dahlback,
Audionom,
Harpers Bizarre,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Litter,
Arcadia,
Dual Sessions,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Nik Kershaw,
Pole,
The J.B.'s,
Bronski Beat,
Excepter,
Scientists,
Matthew Bourne,
Essential Logic,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Marmalade,
Ten City,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scrapy,
The Birthday Party,
Sam Rivers,
Stereo Dub,
DJ Sneak,
Rotary Connection,
Pantytec,
Arab on Radar,
Peter and Kerry,
Barclay James Harvest,
Von Mondo,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.