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 Ukraine 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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 oboe 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 Technova to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
Laurel Aitken,
Johnny Clarke,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Fluxion,
Malaria!,
Severed Heads,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Invisible,
Rod Modell,
Kaleidoscope,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Todd Rundgren,
Tomorrow,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Alphaville,
Tommy Roe,
Yellowson,
Section 25,
Maleditus Sound,
The Human League,
Tres Demented,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ornette Coleman,
Newcleus,
The Gap Band,
Roger Hodgson,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Doobie Brothers,
Thompson Twins,
Niagra,
Little Man,
Barrington Levy,
Scan 7,
Glambeats Corp.,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Vogues,
Oblivians,
Funkadelic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
MDC,
Roxy Music,
Skaos,
Agent Orange,
Quadrant,
The Cowsills,
T.S.O.L.,
Joey Negro,
Quantec,
Half Japanese,
Barry Ungar,
The Wake,
Moebius,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Joe Finger,
Black Bananas,
Drexciya,
Buzzcocks,
Lakeside,
the Sonics,
Radiohead,
Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four.
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.