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 Greece 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Spokane.
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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sixth Finger to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All X-101 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Human League,
Livin' Joy,
Icehouse,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Mummies,
The Misunderstood,
Boz Scaggs,
Japan,
The Invisible,
The Associates,
Easy Going,
Bluetip,
David Bowie,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Smog,
Section 25,
Scan 7,
the Normal,
Lee Hazlewood,
New Age Steppers,
Quando Quango,
Jandek,
The Cramps,
the Association,
Glenn Branca,
Con Funk Shun,
Barry Ungar,
the Soft Cell,
EPMD,
Bill Near,
Barbara Tucker,
Babytalk,
The Neon Judgement,
Half Japanese,
Oblivians,
Depeche Mode,
Bill Wells,
Marcia Griffiths,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cameo,
a-ha,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Slits,
Blake Baxter,
Bizarre Inc.,
Delta 5,
Robert Görl,
Stereo Dub,
Suicide,
Eden Ahbez,
Judy Mowatt,
Peter & Gordon,
Bobby Byrd,
La Düsseldorf,
Technova,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Essential Logic,
B.T. Express,
Clear Light,
Television,
Moby Grape,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.