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 Singapore and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Easy Going to the disco 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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord 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 rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
F. McDonald,
Sarah Menescal,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Duran Duran,
The Smoke,
The Vogues,
Bobby Womack,
Sun City Girls,
Nik Kershaw,
The Mummies,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Index,
L. Decosne,
Erasure,
Cecil Taylor,
Fat Boys,
Saccharine Trust,
Slick Rick,
Bizarre Inc.,
Matthew Bourne,
Fluxion,
Schoolly D,
The Sound,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Second Layer,
The Walker Brothers,
Reagan Youth,
R.M.O.,
Public Image Ltd.,
A Certain Ratio,
Barclay James Harvest,
Idris Muhammad,
Maleditus Sound,
June of 44,
Radiohead,
the Normal,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Neon Judgement,
kango's stein massive,
Piero Umiliani,
Gong,
UT,
Jeru the Damaja,
Agitation Free,
Jacques Brel,
Soul II Soul,
Sixth Finger,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Motorama,
Wire,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Monolake,
Popol Vuh,
Banda Bassotti,
Clear Light,
Slave,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Unwound,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.