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 Cameroon and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo to the electroclash 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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Prince Buster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Hashim,
Juan Atkins,
The Remains,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Soulsonic Force,
Jeff Lynne,
OOIOO,
Black Flag,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Flash Fearless,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Kinks,
The Real Kids,
AZ,
Basic Channel,
La Düsseldorf,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Amon Düül II,
Eric Dolphy,
Rotary Connection,
Glenn Branca,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Icehouse,
Soul II Soul,
Funkadelic,
Althea and Donna,
Von Mondo,
Tim Buckley,
The Fire Engines,
Gang Starr,
The Dirtbombs,
Sound Behaviour,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Cramps,
Pantaleimon,
Aswad,
Barrington Levy,
Cal Tjader,
Vladislav Delay,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ornette Coleman,
Max Romeo,
DNA,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Electric Prunes,
Kerrie Biddell,
Easy Going,
Porter Ricks,
The Knickerbockers,
Yaz,
The Black Dice,
Bill Near,
Eurythmics,
Michelle Simonal,
Mary Jane Girls,
Fear,
Dawn Penn,
The Searchers,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.