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 Dominica and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew 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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Inner City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
Kerri Chandler,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lower 48,
PIL,
Scientists,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
E-Dancer,
Porter Ricks,
Thee Headcoats,
Dave Gahan,
Skaos,
kango's stein massive,
Peter & Gordon,
Neu!,
Aural Exciters,
Japan,
Howard Jones,
Marc Almond,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Susan Cadogan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sällskapet,
Pere Ubu,
Johnny Clarke,
The Motions,
Joensuu 1685,
Thompson Twins,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Das Ding,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Moebius,
Bush Tetras,
EPMD,
Jerry's Kids,
Danielle Patucci,
The Cowsills,
U.S. Maple,
Joe Smooth,
Sister Nancy,
Cybotron,
Slick Rick,
OOIOO,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
James Chance & The Contortions,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ultra Naté,
Letta Mbulu,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Selecter,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Icehouse,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Isaac Hayes,
Ossler,
June of 44,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.