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 Belarus and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 rhodes 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 Leonard Cohen to the techno 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 Barclay James Harvest. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Guru Guru,
Icehouse,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Wings,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pole,
MDC,
Graham Central Station,
Jeff Lynne,
Andrew Hill,
Robert Wyatt,
Popol Vuh,
Newcleus,
Mo-Dettes,
Television,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Arcadia,
Quantec,
Audionom,
Simply Red,
Aswad,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Flash Fearless,
The Residents,
Piero Umiliani,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Electric Prunes,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Alton Ellis,
Liliput,
ABBA,
Nik Kershaw,
Yusef Lateef,
The Electric Prunes,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Crime,
Dawn Penn,
The Fortunes,
10cc,
Black Bananas,
Ultimate Spinach,
Skaos,
Funkadelic,
Eve St. Jones,
Joe Smooth,
Qualms,
Sandy B,
Ultra Naté,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Tears for Fears,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Neon Judgement,
Barrington Levy,
kango's stein massive,
The Fugs,
Mark Hollis,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.