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 Norway and from Columbus.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Godley & Creme to the techno 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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sparks,
Letta Mbulu,
Suburban Knight,
Soul II Soul,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gang Gang Dance,
Black Pus,
Roger Hodgson,
Ponytail,
The Moleskins,
L. Decosne,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Fear,
Matthew Halsall,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Wings,
Quantec,
Nas,
Bauhaus,
The Cosmic Jokers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ronan,
The Doobie Brothers,
MDC,
Ken Boothe,
One Last Wish,
The Selecter,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Tubeway Army,
a-ha,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Model 500,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Urselle,
Tears for Fears,
Crime,
Slick Rick,
MC5,
Gil Scott Heron,
DNA,
Desert Stars,
Laurel Aitken,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Tropical Tobacco,
Deepchord,
Nation of Ulysses,
Public Image Ltd.,
Maleditus Sound,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Barracudas,
The Move,
EPMD,
The Searchers,
Main Source,
Sound Behaviour,
Can,
Severed Heads,
The Slackers,
Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon.
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.