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 India and from Copenhagen.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 snare 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 Fire Engines to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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 Remains,
The Cure,
DNA,
10cc,
The Standells,
Arcadia,
Loose Ends,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Barbara Tucker,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Zeros,
Aural Exciters,
The Fuzztones,
EPMD,
Mandrill,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Angels of Light,
Rites of Spring,
Harpers Bizarre,
Stiv Bators,
Matthew Halsall,
Marc Almond,
the Swans,
Ralphi Rosario,
David Bowie,
The Knickerbockers,
Leonard Cohen,
Skriet,
the Fania All-Stars,
Tears for Fears,
Fugazi,
Joensuu 1685,
Crispian St. Peters,
Joy Division,
Cluster,
Average White Band,
Josef K,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Nils Olav,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Black Sheep,
UT,
The Gun Club,
Ohio Players,
Mad Mike,
the Soft Cell,
Schoolly D,
The Beau Brummels,
Flash Fearless,
Television Personalities,
Skaos,
Trumans Water,
E-Dancer,
Michelle Simonal,
Jeff Lynne,
Soul Sonic Force,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Minny Pops,
Scott Walker,
Cymande,
Grauzone,
Yazoo,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.