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 Laos and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 808 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the disco 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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
10cc,
Siglo XX,
Interpol,
Minor Threat,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Womack,
Harry Pussy,
Newcleus,
The Vogues,
The Zeros,
Dennis Brown,
EPMD,
Rotary Connection,
Whodini,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Slick Rick,
The Fall,
Gichy Dan,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sonic Youth,
Monolake,
Main Source,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Flesh Eaters,
Skaos,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pole,
The Cure,
Duran Duran,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lungfish,
Lindisfarne,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Robert Görl,
Cymande,
Second Layer,
the Normal,
ABC,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Joyce Sims,
Rhythm & Sound,
Unwound,
Marcia Griffiths,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bobby Byrd,
Maleditus Sound,
Popol Vuh,
Matthew Bourne,
Mad Mike,
Delta 5,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Association,
Marc Almond,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
T.S.O.L.,
Harmonia,
The American Breed,
Technova,
The Last Poets,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.