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 Korea North and from Manila.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 mellotron 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 Adolescents to the funk 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 Echo & the Bunnymen. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Skarface,
Jacob Miller,
Unwound,
Juan Atkins,
The Music Machine,
Hot Snakes,
Shoche,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Youth Brigade,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Harpers Bizarre,
Marc Almond,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rod Modell,
Kerrie Biddell,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Fortunes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Main Source,
Drexciya,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Quadrant,
FM Einheit,
Underground Resistance,
Arcadia,
Terrestrial Tones,
The American Breed,
Pole,
Animal Collective,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Tubeway Army,
Kas Product,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ituana,
The J.B.'s,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ken Boothe,
Black Pus,
Mandrill,
Amazonics,
Black Moon,
Khruangbin,
Audionom,
Pantaleimon,
Agent Orange,
China Crisis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Slits,
Television,
Maurizio,
Bill Wells,
the Swans,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Toasters,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Brothers Johnson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.