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 Turkmenistan and from Edmonton.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare 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 Mars to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Jeru the Damaja. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
the Germs,
Grauzone,
China Crisis,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Electric Prunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Todd Rundgren,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Make Up,
Camberwell Now,
B.T. Express,
Aaron Thompson,
Babytalk,
Depeche Mode,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bootsy Collins,
The Doobie Brothers,
Essential Logic,
The Alarm Clocks,
Alphaville,
Gregory Isaacs,
KRS-One,
Heaven 17,
Steve Hackett,
Schoolly D,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Buzzcocks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Crooked Eye,
Section 25,
Wire,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Jimmy McGriff,
Roy Ayers,
Minnie Riperton,
Slick Rick,
Motorama,
U.S. Maple,
Delta 5,
Frankie Knuckles,
Suburban Knight,
Ralphi Rosario,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Dorothy Ashby,
Spoonie Gee,
Patti Smith,
CMW,
Cybotron,
Television Personalities,
The Modern Lovers,
The Leaves,
ABC,
L. Decosne,
Connie Case,
MC5,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.