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 Italy and from Philadelphia.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Blancmange to the dance 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slick Rick,
Audionom,
Lou Christie,
Zero Boys,
Crispy Ambulance,
Country Teasers,
The Barracudas,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Motions,
Glenn Branca,
Skriet,
Das Ding,
The Invisible,
Eric B and Rakim,
the Normal,
June Days,
Rotary Connection,
Lyres,
Bad Manners,
ABC,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Mr. Review,
Quando Quango,
Agitation Free,
Lindisfarne,
Television,
Ludus,
Kerrie Biddell,
Qualms,
Althea and Donna,
Stetsasonic,
Bobby Womack,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Johnny Clarke,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Selecter,
Pole,
Crash Course in Science,
the Germs,
The Zeros,
Camberwell Now,
Yellowson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bill Wells,
Lightning Bolt,
OOIOO,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
ABBA,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bob Dylan,
Piero Umiliani,
Rhythm & Sound,
DNA,
Youth Brigade,
EPMD,
Soft Machine,
Judy Mowatt,
Swans,
E-Dancer,
Amon Düül,
The Walker Brothers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.