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 Nigeria and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bronski Beat to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fat Boys. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Franke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Names,
Robert Hood,
Roger Hodgson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bad Manners,
Wire,
Howard Jones,
Davy DMX,
Gregory Isaacs,
David Axelrod,
David McCallum,
Sam Rivers,
Alison Limerick,
Spandau Ballet,
Terry Callier,
Gerry Rafferty,
Smog,
Laurel Aitken,
The Offenders,
Pere Ubu,
Juan Atkins,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Pus,
Jimmy McGriff,
Toni Rubio,
Ice-T,
Sällskapet,
Neil Young,
John Holt,
Quantec,
Malaria!,
Livin' Joy,
Nils Olav,
The Residents,
Oblivians,
Avey Tare,
the Slits,
Mars,
Robert Wyatt,
Basic Channel,
Soul II Soul,
Aswad,
Kerri Chandler,
The Happenings,
Pulsallama,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Supertramp,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bobby Womack,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jandek,
the Sonics,
The Real Kids,
The Martian,
Flamin' Groovies,
Moby Grape,
Bootsy Collins,
Accadde A,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pylon,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.