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 Cyprus and from Manchester.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Massinfluence to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback 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?
The American Breed,
Accadde A,
D'Angelo,
Nils Olav,
Arthur Verocai,
Cecil Taylor,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Audionom,
Echospace,
Half Japanese,
Adolescents,
E-Dancer,
The United States of America,
Stockholm Monsters,
Slave,
New Order,
Matthew Halsall,
Quantec,
The Sonics,
Shoche,
One Last Wish,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Black Sheep,
Gabor Szabo,
Ituana,
Bronski Beat,
Au Pairs,
B.T. Express,
Anthony Braxton,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Heaven 17,
Bill Wells,
Intrusion,
Lightning Bolt,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Velvet Underground,
Slick Rick,
Urselle,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Reagan Youth,
KRS-One,
Jesper Dahlback,
Symarip,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Public Image Ltd.,
Schoolly D,
Rapeman,
The J.B.'s,
The Evens,
Marmalade,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
EPMD,
The Techniques,
The Grass Roots,
Ronan,
Procol Harum,
Sandy B,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Joe Smooth,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.