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 Italy 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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Stooges to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kerrie Biddell. All the underground hits.
All Wolf Eyes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blackbyrds,
The Move,
Spandau Ballet,
Quando Quango,
Rakim,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Main Source,
Youth Brigade,
The Sound,
Khruangbin,
Flash Fearless,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Severed Heads,
the Human League,
Pierre Henry,
Make Up,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Depeche Mode,
Radiohead,
Johnny Clarke,
Derrick May,
Terrestrial Tones,
Quantec,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Scott Walker,
The Moody Blues,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
John Foxx,
London Community Gospel Choir,
This Heat,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Marmalade,
Mr. Review,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ludus,
The Stooges,
Marcia Griffiths,
Chris Corsano,
Roy Ayers,
The J.B.'s,
Agent Orange,
Stereo Dub,
a-ha,
Todd Terry,
Don Cherry,
The Victims,
Godley & Creme,
The Gap Band,
David McCallum,
Kayak,
Faust,
The Shadows of Knight,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lakeside,
Excepter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sixth Finger,
The Buckinghams,
Fugazi,
Jacob Miller,
The Grass Roots,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.