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 Seychelles and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the punk 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Juan Atkins,
Camberwell Now,
Donny Hathaway,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Amon Düül,
Unrelated Segments,
Adolescents,
The Pretty Things,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ken Boothe,
Country Teasers,
PIL,
The Dead C,
Thee Headcoats,
The Gories,
Flash Fearless,
Pere Ubu,
Sister Nancy,
Visage,
Procol Harum,
Bootsy Collins,
Oneida,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Normal,
Darondo,
The Zeros,
Television,
The Electric Prunes,
Yazoo,
Radiopuhelimet,
Saccharine Trust,
Accadde A,
The Durutti Column,
Funkadelic,
B.T. Express,
La Düsseldorf,
Model 500,
Rosa Yemen,
Gong,
Cal Tjader,
Glenn Branca,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Funky Four + One,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dennis Brown,
Boz Scaggs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lyres,
Todd Rundgren,
Inner City,
Trumans Water,
The Gap Band,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Dave Clark Five,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Man Parrish,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.