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 Bulgaria 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Yaz to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 James White and The Blacks. All the underground hits.
All Eric B and Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke 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 chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
The Walker Brothers,
Spandau Ballet,
Bill Near,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Cabaret Voltaire,
LL Cool J,
The Shadows of Knight,
Quadrant,
Ornette Coleman,
Chris Corsano,
Toni Rubio,
The Dirtbombs,
Todd Terry,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Scan 7,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Stetsasonic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Angels of Light,
Panda Bear,
Eurythmics,
Gang Starr,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Skatalites,
Gang of Four,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Skaos,
Trumans Water,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Human League,
Mission of Burma,
The Mummies,
Kas Product,
Audionom,
Supertramp,
Sugar Minott,
Davy DMX,
Terrestrial Tones,
Delta 5,
Fugazi,
Half Japanese,
Lee Hazlewood,
Arab on Radar,
Faraquet,
Kerrie Biddell,
Popol Vuh,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lindisfarne,
The Detroit Cobras,
Wally Richardson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Scott Walker,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gun Club,
The Slackers,
Sister Nancy,
Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat.
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.