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 Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Minny Pops to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone 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 snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
The Pop Group,
David Axelrod,
Sugar Minott,
Erykah Badu,
Magma,
Electric Prunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Raincoats,
Bob Dylan,
Underground Resistance,
Hoover,
The American Breed,
Ronnie Foster,
Ohio Players,
Duran Duran,
Yaz,
Second Layer,
Sexual Harrassment,
Porter Ricks,
Popol Vuh,
kango's stein massive,
Ornette Coleman,
Scion,
Procol Harum,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Cure,
Mars,
Animal Collective,
Urselle,
Bronski Beat,
Matthew Halsall,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kenny Larkin,
Nirvana,
Tim Buckley,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gang Starr,
Khruangbin,
Quantec,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Country Teasers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Doors,
Livin' Joy,
This Heat,
X-102,
Henry Cow,
Malaria!,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Radio Birdman,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nik Kershaw,
L. Decosne,
Nick Fraelich,
Tears for Fears,
Massinfluence,
Television,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Donald Byrd,
Aswad, Aswad, Aswad, Aswad.
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.