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 Nigeria and from Woodstock.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Pole to the disco 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Wake 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Offenders,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Peter and Kerry,
Maleditus Sound,
Animal Collective,
Sun City Girls,
Mad Mike,
Nation of Ulysses,
Magma,
Bobby Byrd,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Tremeloes,
Donald Byrd,
Qualms,
Barrington Levy,
Graham Central Station,
The Beau Brummels,
The Modern Lovers,
The Kinks,
Gong,
Gerry Rafferty,
Reuben Wilson,
Schoolly D,
Marine Girls,
Scott Walker,
X-101,
The Walker Brothers,
Aaron Thompson,
Delta 5,
Wally Richardson,
Monks,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Cal Tjader,
Mandrill,
The Blues Magoos,
the Association,
Pere Ubu,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tomorrow,
Warren Ellis,
Youth Brigade,
Groovy Waters,
Dave Gahan,
The Victims,
Crooked Eye,
Cybotron,
The Birthday Party,
Hashim,
Derrick May,
The Remains,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ituana,
ABC,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Jerry's Kids,
Man Parrish,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Clear Light,
Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome.
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.