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 Hungary and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Kaleidoscope to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gang of Four. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Lower 48,
Pet Shop Boys,
Youth Brigade,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
China Crisis,
Franke,
Neil Young,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Intrusion,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Chris & Cosey,
Deadbeat,
This Heat,
Tom Boy,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Golliwogs,
Bauhaus,
Average White Band,
The Motions,
Icehouse,
Au Pairs,
Ken Boothe,
Mars,
the Slits,
kango's stein massive,
Scientists,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kas Product,
Niagra,
The American Breed,
Ornette Coleman,
Trumans Water,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Lucky Dragons,
Public Image Ltd.,
Subhumans,
Bootsy Collins,
Todd Rundgren,
Tomorrow,
Warren Ellis,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Simply Red,
FM Einheit,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Music Machine,
Swell Maps,
Peter & Gordon,
Masters at Work,
Delta 5,
Davy DMX,
Das Ding,
K-Klass,
The Searchers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Electric Prunes,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.