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 Saudi Arabia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manila.
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 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 the Association to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Bobbi Humphrey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme 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 güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Heaven 17,
The J.B.'s,
Eve St. Jones,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Youth Brigade,
Cymande,
Alton Ellis,
Big Daddy Kane,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ronnie Foster,
Lightning Bolt,
Magma,
Monolake,
The Music Machine,
Slick Rick,
Lungfish,
Jeru the Damaja,
Soft Cell,
D'Angelo,
Angry Samoans,
the Association,
Cecil Taylor,
China Crisis,
Piero Umiliani,
Bill Wells,
OOIOO,
10cc,
Lalann,
Pantaleimon,
Procol Harum,
Bobby Sherman,
The Leaves,
The Invisible,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pere Ubu,
Marvin Gaye,
Alphaville,
Soft Machine,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Janne Schatter,
Fugazi,
Todd Terry,
Pharoah Sanders,
Peter & Gordon,
Soul II Soul,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Electric Prunes,
Chrome,
The Searchers,
Ken Boothe,
Minny Pops,
A Certain Ratio,
The Toasters,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sun City Girls,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Idris Muhammad,
Jerry's Kids,
Ultravox,
the Soft Cell,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.