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 Tunisia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Quadrant to the rock 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 Shuggie Otis. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-Ray Spex,
Wire,
the Soft Cell,
Franke,
The Martian,
Guru Guru,
The Fugs,
the Association,
D'Angelo,
Skriet,
Section 25,
Lalann,
Sarah Menescal,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Young Rascals,
Rekid,
Hardrive,
Television,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Mission of Burma,
Lee Hazlewood,
Max Romeo,
Absolute Body Control,
Wolf Eyes,
Fela Kuti,
Au Pairs,
The Move,
Parry Music,
Outsiders,
Blancmange,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Flesh Eaters,
Peter & Gordon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Selecter,
Excepter,
Sonic Youth,
The Count Five,
Prince Buster,
The Cure,
Scan 7,
Deakin,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Cal Tjader,
the Human League,
Supertramp,
The Velvet Underground,
Country Teasers,
Byron Stingily,
Grauzone,
David McCallum,
Bill Wells,
The Gun Club,
Unwound,
Yazoo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gap Band,
Dennis Brown,
Second Layer,
Brothers Johnson,
Brand Nubian,
The Busters,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.