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 Cyprus and from Lagos.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Rotary Connection to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Bourne 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 synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magma,
The Angels of Light,
Joensuu 1685,
Tears for Fears,
The Mojo Men,
Crispian St. Peters,
Marine Girls,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Young Rascals,
The Real Kids,
Motorama,
Aloha Tigers,
Index,
Ossler,
The Stooges,
Massinfluence,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ronnie Foster,
Mr. Review,
La Düsseldorf,
Minny Pops,
The Move,
Gichy Dan,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Cameo,
The Beau Brummels,
Isaac Hayes,
Ituana,
Rosa Yemen,
Sun Ra,
T.S.O.L.,
Scrapy,
Gang Starr,
Sister Nancy,
Jacques Brel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eric B and Rakim,
Crooked Eye,
Loose Ends,
Animal Collective,
David Bowie,
Soul Sonic Force,
Japan,
Average White Band,
Jeff Lynne,
Bizarre Inc.,
Radio Birdman,
Kerri Chandler,
Boz Scaggs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
ABC,
Kenny Larkin,
Ludus,
The Raincoats,
Brothers Johnson,
Newcleus,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Underground Resistance,
China Crisis,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Cecil Taylor,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.