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 the UAE and from Columbus.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Stereo Dub to the crunk 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 Mark Hollis. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ornette Coleman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Reuben Wilson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Durutti Column,
New York Dolls,
The Modern Lovers,
Anthony Braxton,
Leonard Cohen,
Flipper,
The Black Dice,
Camouflage,
The Blackbyrds,
Dawn Penn,
The Real Kids,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Toasters,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Todd Terry,
Donald Byrd,
Monolake,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marmalade,
Amon Düül II,
One Last Wish,
Tom Boy,
Scion,
Mo-Dettes,
This Heat,
Jimmy McGriff,
Harmonia,
Roxette,
Popol Vuh,
Groovy Waters,
Moby Grape,
48th St. Collective,
Schoolly D,
Joe Finger,
Lindisfarne,
PIL,
Subhumans,
The Raincoats,
The Techniques,
Albert Ayler,
Yaz,
Lou Reed,
The Count Five,
Soft Cell,
Nik Kershaw,
The Flesh Eaters,
Arthur Verocai,
Alton Ellis,
the Germs,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Average White Band,
Rod Modell,
Sparks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Johnny Osbourne,
a-ha,
Hashim,
Jandek,
Electric Prunes,
the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell.
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.