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 Estonia and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Salvador.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Theoretical Girls to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sister Nancy. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 The United States of America record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Deadbeat,
The Pop Group,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joe Smooth,
the Germs,
the Swans,
New Age Steppers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nirvana,
Dead Boys,
Glenn Branca,
Inner City,
Howard Jones,
Underground Resistance,
Swans,
D'Angelo,
Donald Byrd,
Nico,
The Associates,
Von Mondo,
Dark Day,
Thompson Twins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rapeman,
Can,
The Invisible,
Maurizio,
Matthew Bourne,
Byron Stingily,
In Retrospect,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Suicide,
KRS-One,
Faraquet,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Buzzcocks,
the Normal,
Ituana,
Al Stewart,
The Durutti Column,
The Cowsills,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Techniques,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Shoche,
Crispian St. Peters,
Altered Images,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Country Teasers,
8 Eyed Spy,
Saccharine Trust,
Mandrill,
Lucky Dragons,
Piero Umiliani,
Janne Schatter,
The Buckinghams,
Wolf Eyes,
Joy Division,
Section 25,
Funky Four + One,
Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy.
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.