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 Czech Republic and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 synthesizer 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 Little Man to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slick Rick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Roger Hodgson,
Albert Ayler,
The Seeds,
The Wake,
Maurizio,
Flash Fearless,
ABBA,
Vainqueur,
Soulsonic Force,
JFA,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
X-101,
Underground Resistance,
Magma,
The Velvet Underground,
Eric Copeland,
Anakelly,
cv313,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lightning Bolt,
Fear,
The Young Rascals,
Piero Umiliani,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Skaos,
Pagans,
Warren Ellis,
The Dirtbombs,
Danielle Patucci,
Eve St. Jones,
Visage,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lower 48,
Niagra,
Liliput,
Tears for Fears,
Josef K,
Joensuu 1685,
CMW,
Amon Düül,
Erasure,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gong,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sparks,
Gichy Dan,
Bronski Beat,
Boz Scaggs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Dead C,
Marvin Gaye,
PIL,
Bang On A Can,
Bluetip,
Aswad,
Oneida,
Depeche Mode,
Ultra Naté,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.