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 Korea North and from Delhi.
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 Copenhagen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Cure to the crunk 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 Harry Pussy. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Pus,
Terrestrial Tones,
Banda Bassotti,
Leonard Cohen,
Ituana,
Darondo,
Symarip,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kevin Saunderson,
Zero Boys,
The Music Machine,
Robert Wyatt,
Country Joe & The Fish,
David McCallum,
The Gories,
ABC,
The Residents,
Fluxion,
Pussy Galore,
Juan Atkins,
Warren Ellis,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Maurizio,
Arcadia,
The Saints,
Angry Samoans,
The Slackers,
MDC,
Skaos,
The Doors,
DJ Style,
The Invisible,
Oneida,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scratch Acid,
Yaz,
John Cale,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Grey Daturas,
Neu!,
Wally Richardson,
Monolake,
Japan,
PIL,
Rapeman,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The New Christs,
Nick Fraelich,
Scan 7,
Stiv Bators,
Danielle Patucci,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Section 25,
Ossler,
The Neon Judgement,
Bobby Sherman,
Archie Shepp,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.