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 Dominica and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Evens. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tom Boy 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
K-Klass,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lower 48,
Davy DMX,
Hashim,
Sexual Harrassment,
Popol Vuh,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Minutemen,
The Victims,
Graham Central Station,
Delon & Dalcan,
Unwound,
Neil Young,
Swans,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Connie Case,
Dorothy Ashby,
Harry Pussy,
Ronnie Foster,
Icehouse,
FM Einheit,
F. McDonald,
Thompson Twins,
The Gap Band,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Faraquet,
Robert Hood,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Howard Jones,
Derrick Morgan,
the Bar-Kays,
Kayak,
Lou Reed,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Smog,
Jacob Miller,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
A Flock of Seagulls,
DJ Sneak,
Zero Boys,
Country Joe & The Fish,
10cc,
Thee Headcoats,
Kas Product,
Soul Sonic Force,
Radio Birdman,
Godley & Creme,
Drexciya,
Echospace,
Sight & Sound,
Skarface,
T.S.O.L.,
The Techniques,
Cameo,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Crooked Eye,
Moss Icon,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.