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 Ivory Coast and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the electroclash 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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
Radiopuhelimet,
Danielle Patucci,
Man Eating Sloth,
Traffic Nightmare,
Magma,
Flipper,
Marvin Gaye,
Jesper Dahlback,
Soulsonic Force,
Lou Christie,
Unrelated Segments,
Television Personalities,
Parry Music,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kaleidoscope,
Sällskapet,
FM Einheit,
New York Dolls,
Con Funk Shun,
The Pop Group,
Sparks,
Prince Buster,
Ultravox,
Oblivians,
Iggy Pop,
Blossom Toes,
Intrusion,
Bobby Womack,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
John Cale,
Desert Stars,
The Grass Roots,
Matthew Halsall,
Echospace,
Accadde A,
Silicon Teens,
Joe Finger,
Johnny Osbourne,
DNA,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Blackbyrds,
Sonic Youth,
Marmalade,
Metal Thangz,
The Moody Blues,
Tropical Tobacco,
E-Dancer,
Blancmange,
Scratch Acid,
Sex Pistols,
The Birthday Party,
Connie Case,
Electric Prunes,
Goldenarms,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Tears for Fears,
Terry Callier,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Fortunes,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.