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 El Salvador and from Taipei.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 linndrum 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 Guru Guru to the disco 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 The Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Das Ding record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Pet Shop Boys,
Janne Schatter,
Pole,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Country Teasers,
U.S. Maple,
David McCallum,
Morten Harket,
Lebanon Hanover,
Yazoo,
Monks,
Infiniti,
Livin' Joy,
Erasure,
The Standells,
Minutemen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Siglo XX,
Blake Baxter,
OOIOO,
Joyce Sims,
Intrusion,
Piero Umiliani,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Audionom,
Al Stewart,
Bootsy Collins,
Sugar Minott,
Brothers Johnson,
Negative Approach,
Tears for Fears,
Vladislav Delay,
Ronnie Foster,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Subhumans,
Joy Division,
Sun City Girls,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gong,
The Selecter,
Aloha Tigers,
Excepter,
June Days,
Soul II Soul,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bush Tetras,
Ponytail,
Cybotron,
Sarah Menescal,
Dennis Brown,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pylon,
Barbara Tucker,
Camberwell Now,
Monolake,
Big Daddy Kane,
Tommy Roe,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.