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 Congo and from London.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Traffic Nightmare to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spandau Ballet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Bush Tetras,
Monks,
Lou Christie,
Procol Harum,
Brick,
Gang Starr,
Theoretical Girls,
Visage,
The Gap Band,
Eric Copeland,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Neon Judgement,
Byron Stingily,
MDC,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jeff Mills,
Isaac Hayes,
The Cramps,
Swell Maps,
Eddi Front,
Nirvana,
Blossom Toes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Darondo,
Agitation Free,
Ken Boothe,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Red Krayola,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dave Gahan,
Underground Resistance,
Robert Görl,
Aaron Thompson,
The Walker Brothers,
The Gories,
Junior Murvin,
Ronan,
The Skatalites,
Groovy Waters,
The Kinks,
Newcleus,
LL Cool J,
Unrelated Segments,
L. Decosne,
The Modern Lovers,
Morten Harket,
Model 500,
Ludus,
Amon Düül,
Smog,
Marcia Griffiths,
Second Layer,
Lungfish,
Clear Light,
Das Ding,
Jerry Gold Smith,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Names,
Kevin Saunderson,
Eden Ahbez,
Sam Rivers,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.