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 Tuvalu and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 Marshall Jefferson to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Livin' Joy,
Kerrie Biddell,
Public Enemy,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Cramps,
Robert Görl,
Arcadia,
Skarface,
The Trojans,
Pere Ubu,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Motions,
Ken Boothe,
DJ Style,
a-ha,
Sound Behaviour,
Buzzcocks,
Reagan Youth,
Black Sheep,
Iggy Pop,
Japan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jeff Mills,
Q65,
Cecil Taylor,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Monks,
The Fall,
Vainqueur,
Symarip,
Cal Tjader,
The Five Americans,
The Victims,
Bob Dylan,
Rapeman,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Joe Finger,
The Divine Comedy,
The Slits,
Main Source,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sarah Menescal,
The Fire Engines,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Mandrill,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Pretty Things,
Pantytec,
Das Ding,
Lalann,
Morten Harket,
The Litter,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Niagra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Associates,
Popol Vuh,
Juan Atkins,
Bluetip,
The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes.
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.