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 Benin and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 mellotron 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 The Moleskins to the punk 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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Boogie Down Productions,
Soulsonic Force,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Motions,
The Fugs,
Quando Quango,
Blossom Toes,
Aural Exciters,
Kurtis Blow,
Sister Nancy,
Grauzone,
The Smiths,
Henry Cow,
Angry Samoans,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Todd Terry,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Mandrill,
Absolute Body Control,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Section 25,
Idris Muhammad,
The Detroit Cobras,
Newcleus,
Steve Hackett,
Ronnie Foster,
Suicide,
Roxette,
Morten Harket,
Crime,
Oblivians,
The Offenders,
This Heat,
kango's stein massive,
Gabor Szabo,
Wolf Eyes,
The Wake,
Throbbing Gristle,
Soul Sonic Force,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Kenny Larkin,
Index,
The Gap Band,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Jeff Lynne,
Eli Mardock,
Amon Düül II,
James White and The Blacks,
Bad Manners,
E-Dancer,
Jacob Miller,
Young Marble Giants,
The Pop Group,
Main Source,
Echospace,
Lakeside,
Niagra,
Trumans Water,
Jacques Brel,
Marc Almond,
Cymande, Cymande, Cymande, Cymande.
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.