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 Korea South and from Taipei.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the snare 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 Roy Ayers to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Livin' Joy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Magazine,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Iggy Pop,
Gerry Rafferty,
Soft Cell,
Aural Exciters,
Guru Guru,
Darondo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mandrill,
Theoretical Girls,
Soul Sonic Force,
In Retrospect,
Skaos,
Pulsallama,
Drexciya,
Tears for Fears,
Blake Baxter,
Jeff Lynne,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Thompson Twins,
Soul II Soul,
Kenny Larkin,
June Days,
The Cure,
the Fania All-Stars,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jandek,
Sex Pistols,
The Searchers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bill Near,
Crime,
Wasted Youth,
Eden Ahbez,
Ituana,
Adolescents,
Hoover,
James White and The Blacks,
The Golliwogs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bobby Hutcherson,
DNA,
The Barracudas,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Altered Images,
Motorama,
Nas,
The Leaves,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
New Order,
Unwound,
E-Dancer,
The Star Department,
JFA,
The Fire Engines,
Tim Buckley,
Leonard Cohen,
Yaz,
Section 25,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.