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 United Kingdom and from Bremen.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Accra.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
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 Pierre Henry to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All Kerrie Biddell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
Fat Boys,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Barbara Tucker,
F. McDonald,
The Residents,
Wasted Youth,
Aswad,
The Searchers,
Fatback Band,
Michelle Simonal,
Y Pants,
Nick Fraelich,
The Moleskins,
Ralphi Rosario,
Toni Rubio,
L. Decosne,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lalann,
Television,
Amon Düül II,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Todd Rundgren,
Depeche Mode,
Second Layer,
UT,
Unrelated Segments,
Neu!,
Black Pus,
The Victims,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gastr Del Sol,
Maleditus Sound,
Ronan,
B.T. Express,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Desert Stars,
The Divine Comedy,
Johnny Clarke,
Jeff Mills,
Swans,
Kas Product,
Dead Boys,
The Tremeloes,
Pierre Henry,
Pussy Galore,
The Slackers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Public Enemy,
Derrick Morgan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Mummies,
Jawbox,
Mars,
Organ,
Marcia Griffiths,
Hot Snakes,
Patti Smith,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.