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 Zambia and from Lagos.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Supertramp to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Half Japanese. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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?
Susan Cadogan,
Marvin Gaye,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Quadrant,
Basic Channel,
X-102,
Negative Approach,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Roxette,
Eddi Front,
the Bar-Kays,
Whodini,
Fluxion,
Unrelated Segments,
Barclay James Harvest,
Model 500,
Roger Hodgson,
Deepchord,
ABBA,
Joe Smooth,
Leonard Cohen,
The Last Poets,
The Cramps,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Blackbyrds,
Bad Manners,
The Detroit Cobras,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Misunderstood,
Niagra,
Pantytec,
Main Source,
Skriet,
Tomorrow,
Nils Olav,
Joey Negro,
Tom Boy,
Althea and Donna,
Fat Boys,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bobby Sherman,
Organ,
Bizarre Inc.,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gil Scott Heron,
Delta 5,
Bill Near,
Gang Gang Dance,
Magma,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Wire,
Yellowson,
Quando Quango,
Fear,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Blake Baxter,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.