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 Namibia and from Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 clarinet 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kurtis Blow,
Buzzcocks,
Warsaw,
Alphaville,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
In Retrospect,
Little Man,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Public Image Ltd.,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lindisfarne,
Neu!,
Barbara Tucker,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dennis Brown,
Leonard Cohen,
The Electric Prunes,
The Smoke,
Scrapy,
Gichy Dan,
Nick Fraelich,
Wings,
Simply Red,
Archie Shepp,
The Techniques,
Zapp,
Flash Fearless,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Black Bananas,
FM Einheit,
Brothers Johnson,
The Zeros,
Johnny Clarke,
Jeff Lynne,
Erykah Badu,
John Foxx,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ornette Coleman,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
A Certain Ratio,
The Names,
Von Mondo,
Lakeside,
Sam Rivers,
Joey Negro,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Amon Düül II,
Big Daddy Kane,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Black Dice,
Black Moon,
Depeche Mode,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Fuzztones,
Los Fastidios,
The Fall,
The Gladiators,
Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones.
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.