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 Rwanda and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Human League to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Simply Red record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bob Dylan,
Stereo Dub,
Alison Limerick,
The Pretty Things,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Crispian St. Peters,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Icehouse,
Kaleidoscope,
Archie Shepp,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Remains,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eden Ahbez,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Happenings,
Accadde A,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Smog,
Sight & Sound,
Deadbeat,
Minnie Riperton,
Faust,
Marc Almond,
The J.B.'s,
Rod Modell,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lalann,
The Detroit Cobras,
Freddie Wadling,
The Saints,
D'Angelo,
Das Ding,
Delta 5,
Gang Starr,
10cc,
Roxy Music,
Maurizio,
The Victims,
Yellowson,
Bobby Byrd,
Kenny Larkin,
Avey Tare,
The Residents,
K-Klass,
Robert Hood,
DNA,
Bootsy Collins,
Kool Moe Dee,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Minor Threat,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Mandrill,
Jawbox,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Techniques,
T.S.O.L.,
The New Christs,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.