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 Moldova and from Toronto.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Monochrome Set to the rap 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
Livin' Joy,
Royal Trux,
The Monochrome Set,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Warsaw,
Eddi Front,
Fad Gadget,
Country Teasers,
Fluxion,
Pharoah Sanders,
Skarface,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Kinks,
Gang Green,
Anakelly,
Masters at Work,
the Association,
Lyres,
Bauhaus,
Aaron Thompson,
Japan,
Flipper,
Johnny Clarke,
Black Sheep,
AZ,
Marine Girls,
The Standells,
Nirvana,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Suicide,
Yazoo,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Nas,
The Walker Brothers,
T.S.O.L.,
The Vogues,
Skaos,
Mandrill,
Scientists,
Black Pus,
Avey Tare,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Funkadelic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rites of Spring,
Roger Hodgson,
Bronski Beat,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Urselle,
Nick Fraelich,
Stiv Bators,
Ralphi Rosario,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sun Ra,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kas Product,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Robert Hood,
Ultra Naté,
Eden Ahbez,
Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow.
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.