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 Australia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Calgary.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro 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 June Days to the grunge 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Pussy Galore,
the Sonics,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Normal,
The Electric Prunes,
The Selecter,
Mr. Review,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Remains,
Andrew Hill,
Idris Muhammad,
Banda Bassotti,
Barry Ungar,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Dual Sessions,
the Soft Cell,
Roxy Music,
Erasure,
David McCallum,
The Gladiators,
The Neon Judgement,
Isaac Hayes,
Avey Tare,
Jesper Dahlback,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Audionom,
Tears for Fears,
Tropical Tobacco,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Joe Smooth,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Wolf Eyes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New Age Steppers,
Al Stewart,
The Evens,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Magazine,
Cybotron,
Tommy Roe,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
T. Rex,
Mission of Burma,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lebanon Hanover,
Althea and Donna,
Unrelated Segments,
Gil Scott Heron,
Brick,
Lightning Bolt,
Brand Nubian,
The New Christs,
The J.B.'s,
Crash Course in Science,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.