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 China and from Beijing.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 spring reverb 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 Max Romeo to the grime 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
Scratch Acid,
Robert Görl,
Mark Hollis,
Darondo,
The Slits,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
the Sonics,
Mr. Review,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Soft Cell,
Black Pus,
the Swans,
Harmonia,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ponytail,
Davy DMX,
John Foxx,
Camberwell Now,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
T.S.O.L.,
La Düsseldorf,
Duran Duran,
Metal Thangz,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Grass Roots,
Morten Harket,
Pulsallama,
Letta Mbulu,
Wire,
FM Einheit,
The Associates,
Peter & Gordon,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kerri Chandler,
MC5,
Public Image Ltd.,
Livin' Joy,
EPMD,
Lungfish,
The Fall,
Model 500,
Jerry Gold Smith,
the Bar-Kays,
Ludus,
Pet Shop Boys,
Susan Cadogan,
Rakim,
Niagra,
Zapp,
Newcleus,
Derrick May,
The Angels of Light,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barclay James Harvest,
James White and The Blacks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Wolf Eyes,
The Remains,
Tim Buckley,
Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring.
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.