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 Taiwan and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 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 Human League to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Residents. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone 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 mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
The Wake,
Tubeway Army,
Hardrive,
Patti Smith,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
John Foxx,
The Saints,
Agent Orange,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Monochrome Set,
Skaos,
New Age Steppers,
Pantaleimon,
EPMD,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gang of Four,
Susan Cadogan,
The Divine Comedy,
The Monks,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Tremeloes,
Dawn Penn,
This Heat,
The Last Poets,
Drive Like Jehu,
Arthur Verocai,
The Flesh Eaters,
Scion,
Ken Boothe,
Jacob Miller,
The Moody Blues,
Nirvana,
The Seeds,
Swell Maps,
Big Daddy Kane,
Zero Boys,
Kevin Saunderson,
Tom Boy,
The Names,
Section 25,
The Stooges,
Oblivians,
Stereo Dub,
Radio Birdman,
Andrew Hill,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Slackers,
Gong,
The Martian,
Darondo,
The Cure,
Boredoms,
The Mummies,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Donny Hathaway,
The American Breed,
The Knickerbockers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Joe Finger,
The Leaves,
Trumans Water,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.