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 Andorra and from Lagos.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Duran Duran to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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 Residents,
Spoonie Gee,
Fad Gadget,
Throbbing Gristle,
Skriet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Deadbeat,
The Neon Judgement,
Donald Byrd,
Robert Hood,
Subhumans,
Judy Mowatt,
The Gories,
Matthew Halsall,
the Swans,
The Black Dice,
Kaleidoscope,
Joyce Sims,
Mission of Burma,
the Fania All-Stars,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Underground Resistance,
Cheater Slicks,
Vladislav Delay,
Sixth Finger,
Outsiders,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Wire,
Nico,
The Beau Brummels,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Dave Gahan,
Derrick Morgan,
Peter & Gordon,
Amon Düül II,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Surgeon,
Section 25,
The Shadows of Knight,
Magazine,
The Doors,
Brick,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Negative Approach,
Massinfluence,
CMW,
The Knickerbockers,
Little Man,
Youth Brigade,
Kool Moe Dee,
Easy Going,
L. Decosne,
Lyres,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gang of Four,
ABC,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pylon,
X-Ray Spex,
Anthony Braxton,
Sound Behaviour,
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie.
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.