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 Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Philadelphia.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Harmonia to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Los Fastidios record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
Anakelly,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Scan 7,
The Tremeloes,
Jeff Lynne,
Ten City,
Freddie Wadling,
Johnny Clarke,
Make Up,
Matthew Halsall,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Newcleus,
Y Pants,
The Modern Lovers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nico,
The Raincoats,
Andrew Hill,
Wire,
Arthur Verocai,
John Cale,
Supertramp,
Pierre Henry,
The Busters,
Agitation Free,
The Motions,
Joyce Sims,
Lakeside,
Sound Behaviour,
Davy DMX,
June of 44,
Simply Red,
The Electric Prunes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Altered Images,
Nick Fraelich,
The Leaves,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Depeche Mode,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobby Womack,
The Monks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Move,
Yaz,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Nirvana,
Steve Hackett,
A Certain Ratio,
Derrick May,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pere Ubu,
Isaac Hayes,
Nation of Ulysses,
Deepchord,
Sun Ra,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Patti Smith,
Unrelated Segments,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.