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 Denmark and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Lebanon Hanover to the grunge 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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Sad Lovers and Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultravox,
the Soft Cell,
Sun Ra,
Ponytail,
Leonard Cohen,
Yusef Lateef,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Scan 7,
the Swans,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Livin' Joy,
Althea and Donna,
Unwound,
Yaz,
the Bar-Kays,
Duran Duran,
Kayak,
Vainqueur,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Vogues,
The Leaves,
Spandau Ballet,
Joensuu 1685,
DJ Sneak,
Piero Umiliani,
Delta 5,
the Slits,
Gabor Szabo,
Nas,
The Dead C,
Todd Terry,
Sound Behaviour,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Soft Cell,
Boz Scaggs,
Audionom,
Ash Ra Tempel,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Chrome,
Roxette,
Charles Mingus,
Rapeman,
June of 44,
Derrick May,
The Seeds,
Faust,
Dual Sessions,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mandrill,
Jawbox,
Minnie Riperton,
The Trojans,
Aswad,
Lyres,
Average White Band,
Guru Guru,
Japan,
The Associates,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment.
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.