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 Serbia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 808 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the rap 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 D'Angelo. All the underground hits.
All Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maurizio,
The Fugs,
Liliput,
Pantaleimon,
MDC,
The Velvet Underground,
The Mojo Men,
Bill Near,
Dennis Brown,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sonic Youth,
Gang Gang Dance,
Monks,
Terry Callier,
The Names,
Guru Guru,
Pulsallama,
Prince Buster,
Smog,
Country Teasers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lalann,
Sonny Sharrock,
Japan,
Absolute Body Control,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Aswad,
Harmonia,
Fatback Band,
LL Cool J,
Kevin Saunderson,
Index,
Arcadia,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Knickerbockers,
Alison Limerick,
ABBA,
Silicon Teens,
Magma,
Bluetip,
The Litter,
Sarah Menescal,
Swell Maps,
Leonard Cohen,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Tremeloes,
Quando Quango,
the Normal,
Mary Jane Girls,
Don Cherry,
Kas Product,
Qualms,
Rhythm & Sound,
Throbbing Gristle,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jesper Dahlback,
Robert Wyatt,
The Zeros,
The Misunderstood,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.