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 Burundi and from Bologna.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Soul II Soul to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Star Department record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Underground Resistance,
The Smoke,
Cybotron,
Ken Boothe,
Sparks,
The Invisible,
Fad Gadget,
Fela Kuti,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Arab on Radar,
cv313,
Glenn Branca,
Dave Gahan,
World's Most,
The Neon Judgement,
Blake Baxter,
Barbara Tucker,
The Martian,
Fatback Band,
The Cowsills,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rotary Connection,
Yusef Lateef,
Freddie Wadling,
Siglo XX,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Drive Like Jehu,
48th St. Collective,
Nas,
The Sound,
Lower 48,
K-Klass,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Human League,
KRS-One,
The Moleskins,
Peter and Kerry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
10cc,
Agitation Free,
Oneida,
Television,
Neil Young,
X-101,
R.M.O.,
AZ,
Massinfluence,
Black Sheep,
John Lydon,
Donald Byrd,
Loose Ends,
Derrick May,
Kenny Larkin,
Pantytec,
Yazoo,
Visage,
Minny Pops,
Fluxion,
Archie Shepp,
Mars, Mars, Mars, Mars.
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.