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 Slovakia and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Human League to the dance 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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All T. Rex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amazonics 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Qualms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Derrick May,
10cc,
The Sonics,
Section 25,
Jeff Mills,
Kenny Larkin,
FM Einheit,
The Star Department,
Kas Product,
Tom Boy,
Morten Harket,
Josef K,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Surgeon,
Eve St. Jones,
The Fugs,
Procol Harum,
The Flesh Eaters,
Slick Rick,
Grey Daturas,
Fatback Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eddi Front,
China Crisis,
Nick Fraelich,
ABBA,
Johnny Clarke,
B.T. Express,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sonic Youth,
Minor Threat,
Dawn Penn,
The Names,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Erasure,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Soft Cell,
The Martian,
Connie Case,
R.M.O.,
Barbara Tucker,
Scott Walker,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The United States of America,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Prince Buster,
Malaria!,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Amon Düül,
Gerry Rafferty,
Howard Jones,
David McCallum,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.