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 El Salvador and from Mumbai.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Buzzcocks to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Barry Ungar. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camberwell Now record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rod Modell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rakim,
Groovy Waters,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Aloha Tigers,
Warren Ellis,
The Alarm Clocks,
Darondo,
Ronan,
The Fall,
The Golliwogs,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Birthday Party,
Fluxion,
EPMD,
The Modern Lovers,
The Human League,
The Count Five,
Depeche Mode,
Connie Case,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Spoonie Gee,
the Association,
The Cure,
FM Einheit,
the Human League,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Young Marble Giants,
The Grass Roots,
The Wake,
Donny Hathaway,
Thee Headcoats,
Tomorrow,
Popol Vuh,
Boredoms,
Maurizio,
Girls At Our Best!,
China Crisis,
Sound Behaviour,
Whodini,
The Fire Engines,
Porter Ricks,
Lightning Bolt,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Babytalk,
Flipper,
Cheater Slicks,
Michelle Simonal,
Schoolly D,
Monolake,
ABBA,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gerry Rafferty,
Loose Ends,
The Doors,
Massinfluence,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Danielle Patucci,
X-101,
Nik Kershaw,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Heaven 17,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.