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 Nicaragua and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Skaos to the electroclash 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 The Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Red Lorry Yellow Lorry 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
This Heat,
Morten Harket,
Traffic Nightmare,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rod Modell,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Q and Not U,
Peter & Gordon,
One Last Wish,
The United States of America,
Niagra,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
June Days,
The Fugs,
The Dead C,
Joe Smooth,
Von Mondo,
H. Thieme,
Camberwell Now,
Sugar Minott,
Reagan Youth,
Moby Grape,
Michelle Simonal,
Brass Construction,
U.S. Maple,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Dual Sessions,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Young Marble Giants,
Joyce Sims,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Darondo,
Sun Ra,
Agitation Free,
The Victims,
Harmonia,
Radiohead,
the Sonics,
Gichy Dan,
The Names,
Todd Rundgren,
Tropical Tobacco,
Heaven 17,
The Young Rascals,
Rosa Yemen,
Ronnie Foster,
Boz Scaggs,
the Germs,
X-Ray Spex,
The Move,
Flipper,
Eurythmics,
Crooked Eye,
Interpol,
Fad Gadget,
Al Stewart,
Cybotron,
Angry Samoans,
Gabor Szabo,
DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak.
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.