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 Brazil and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 rhodes 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 Mo-Dettes to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Livin' Joy. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bang On A Can,
Hasil Adkins,
Bronski Beat,
Vainqueur,
Ice-T,
Gang Gang Dance,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Agitation Free,
Henry Cow,
World's Most,
These Immortal Souls,
Soft Machine,
Morten Harket,
Massinfluence,
The Velvet Underground,
Gastr Del Sol,
Desert Stars,
Das Ding,
Kurtis Blow,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Hoover,
Moss Icon,
Saccharine Trust,
Arthur Verocai,
Angry Samoans,
Negative Approach,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Scrapy,
Connie Case,
Sarah Menescal,
Bobby Womack,
Traffic Nightmare,
Andrew Hill,
The Techniques,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Minny Pops,
In Retrospect,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kerrie Biddell,
Country Teasers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eric Dolphy,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Junior Murvin,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rekid,
Brick,
Hardrive,
The Toasters,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Graham Central Station,
The Seeds,
Cecil Taylor,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pantaleimon,
June of 44,
Cybotron,
One Last Wish,
China Crisis,
Ultra Naté,
Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp.
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.