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 Comoros and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 808 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 Unrelated Segments to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
Bad Manners,
the Soft Cell,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Real Kids,
OOIOO,
Ohio Players,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Fortunes,
Shoche,
Black Pus,
Curtis Mayfield,
Absolute Body Control,
Yusef Lateef,
Anthony Braxton,
Accadde A,
Roxette,
Slave,
Massinfluence,
DJ Sneak,
Zapp,
Gong,
Barclay James Harvest,
Loose Ends,
The Dead C,
Jacques Brel,
The Toasters,
Toni Rubio,
The Residents,
Banda Bassotti,
Fluxion,
LL Cool J,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Reuben Wilson,
Soulsonic Force,
The Modern Lovers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Silicon Teens,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Metal Thangz,
The Gories,
Man Parrish,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Smog,
Scrapy,
The Associates,
Blancmange,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Eric Dolphy,
Gichy Dan,
Tommy Roe,
Rotary Connection,
The Buckinghams,
The Fire Engines,
Bob Dylan,
Barrington Levy,
Marshall Jefferson,
Urselle,
Dave Gahan,
Eurythmics,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.