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 Madagascar and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 London and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 MDC to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Letta Mbulu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Gichy Dan,
Whodini,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Robert Görl,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Cowsills,
Jerry's Kids,
Grauzone,
Average White Band,
Moss Icon,
Monks,
Scratch Acid,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Gories,
Trumans Water,
The New Christs,
Alice Coltrane,
Crispy Ambulance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Five Americans,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Electric Prunes,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jacob Miller,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Albert Ayler,
New Order,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Stockholm Monsters,
Franke,
Bluetip,
The J.B.'s,
New Age Steppers,
Tears for Fears,
The Human League,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sparks,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Youth Brigade,
Joyce Sims,
The Associates,
X-102,
ABBA,
Parry Music,
Hashim,
Scott Walker,
Smog,
Mandrill,
Goldenarms,
Cal Tjader,
the Swans,
Minnie Riperton,
Susan Cadogan,
The Monochrome Set,
Glambeats Corp.,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.