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 Canada and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 synthesizer 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 Scion to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Symarip. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Clarke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Khruangbin,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Slits,
The Dirtbombs,
Rotary Connection,
The Neon Judgement,
Fear,
Rapeman,
The Young Rascals,
Nik Kershaw,
Grey Daturas,
Second Layer,
Darondo,
Barclay James Harvest,
Crooked Eye,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Monolake,
Lakeside,
Sällskapet,
A Certain Ratio,
Half Japanese,
Alton Ellis,
The Seeds,
Drexciya,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
These Immortal Souls,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Negative Approach,
Lucky Dragons,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Association,
Ultravox,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sixth Finger,
Nick Fraelich,
Young Marble Giants,
Gang Gang Dance,
Erykah Badu,
Slick Rick,
Ponytail,
Steve Hackett,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Duran Duran,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Cure,
The Smoke,
Infiniti,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lower 48,
The Mummies,
Desert Stars,
Livin' Joy,
Oneida,
Gerry Rafferty,
Shoche,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Tubeway Army,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pet Shop Boys,
Peter & Gordon,
B.T. Express,
Erasure,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.