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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric B and Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Todd Rundgren,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hasil Adkins,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Youth Brigade,
Surgeon,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Velvet Underground,
Ten City,
Quando Quango,
Slave,
The Fortunes,
Magazine,
Massinfluence,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Godley & Creme,
Kayak,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eurythmics,
Barclay James Harvest,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Suicide,
Subhumans,
Grey Daturas,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lower 48,
Mars,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
MC5,
Warsaw,
Magma,
Avey Tare,
Bauhaus,
Depeche Mode,
Scion,
The Fuzztones,
China Crisis,
Davy DMX,
Jacques Brel,
Swans,
Gastr Del Sol,
Panda Bear,
Laurel Aitken,
Section 25,
Unwound,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Fall,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Don Cherry,
Grandmaster Flash,
Public Enemy,
ABC,
Mantronix,
Gang Green,
Dark Day,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Moby Grape,
Soul II Soul,
Derrick May,
Cheater Slicks,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.