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 Chile and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the oboe 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 Mantronix to the punk 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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
The Saints,
LL Cool J,
Delta 5,
The Red Krayola,
Ultravox,
Excepter,
Gichy Dan,
The Wake,
Basic Channel,
Moss Icon,
Glenn Branca,
Soft Machine,
The Dead C,
Rekid,
The Gap Band,
Susan Cadogan,
Minutemen,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Tears for Fears,
Nik Kershaw,
Steve Hackett,
Patti Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Outsiders,
The Dirtbombs,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Raincoats,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Vogues,
Massinfluence,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bronski Beat,
Bobby Womack,
La Düsseldorf,
48th St. Collective,
Sound Behaviour,
The Shadows of Knight,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
D'Angelo,
The Gories,
Kurtis Blow,
Tom Boy,
World's Most,
Kas Product,
Eve St. Jones,
Colin Newman,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Model 500,
Wire,
Lower 48,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Max Romeo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
One Last Wish,
Lalo Schifrin,
Circle Jerks,
Popol Vuh,
The Star Department,
Arab on Radar,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Livin' Joy,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.