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 Sierra Leone and from Lagos.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Amon Düül to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Walker Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 48th St. Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Raincoats,
Organ,
E-Dancer,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Tomorrow,
Man Eating Sloth,
Unrelated Segments,
Morten Harket,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Fad Gadget,
The Divine Comedy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Vogues,
Reuben Wilson,
Duran Duran,
Liliput,
Symarip,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eli Mardock,
Kool Moe Dee,
Anakelly,
Skaos,
Tommy Roe,
the Bar-Kays,
Crooked Eye,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Moby Grape,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sparks,
Crispy Ambulance,
Idris Muhammad,
Althea and Donna,
Sound Behaviour,
Loose Ends,
Young Marble Giants,
Mission of Burma,
Minutemen,
The Motions,
The Grass Roots,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cecil Taylor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Junior Murvin,
Wings,
Kevin Saunderson,
Outsiders,
Audionom,
MC5,
the Slits,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
James White and The Blacks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Litter,
Deepchord,
Frankie Knuckles,
Juan Atkins,
Black Moon,
Camberwell Now,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.