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 Ireland and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Flash Fearless to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rites of Spring,
Eve St. Jones,
Sound Behaviour,
Boz Scaggs,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Wally Richardson,
The Searchers,
Animal Collective,
Cluster,
Jeff Lynne,
Jeff Mills,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pantaleimon,
The Velvet Underground,
Sight & Sound,
Audionom,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Zapp,
Maurizio,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Joey Negro,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
LL Cool J,
Cymande,
Marc Almond,
Steve Hackett,
The Skatalites,
Desert Stars,
The Knickerbockers,
Negative Approach,
The Saints,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Colin Newman,
Harpers Bizarre,
Das Ding,
Jerry Gold Smith,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Soul Sonic Force,
Harmonia,
Freddie Wadling,
Tropical Tobacco,
Isaac Hayes,
The Doors,
Echospace,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Tom Boy,
The Martian,
Johnny Osbourne,
Henry Cow,
Terry Callier,
Deepchord,
Aloha Tigers,
Althea and Donna,
Peter & Gordon,
The Remains,
The Monochrome Set,
Pussy Galore,
Make Up,
Altered Images,
Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk.
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.