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 Eritrea and from Bologna.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Smoke to the jazz 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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Pus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Move,
Jerry's Kids,
Surgeon,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Dual Sessions,
Ice-T,
Silicon Teens,
Marine Girls,
Cymande,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Pop Group,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Mandrill,
Accadde A,
Banda Bassotti,
Alison Limerick,
Fat Boys,
China Crisis,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
ABC,
The J.B.'s,
New York Dolls,
The Litter,
Crooked Eye,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joy Division,
Anthony Braxton,
Frankie Knuckles,
Graham Central Station,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lalo Schifrin,
L. Decosne,
Flipper,
the Normal,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Sheep,
EPMD,
Joe Smooth,
The Red Krayola,
Slave,
Mission of Burma,
Procol Harum,
The Residents,
Eurythmics,
Gil Scott Heron,
Country Teasers,
kango's stein massive,
Soft Cell,
ABBA,
Henry Cow,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Marc Almond,
Jeff Lynne,
Bill Wells,
Drive Like Jehu,
Public Enemy,
Cheater Slicks,
Outsiders,
Fugazi,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins.
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.