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 Guyana and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 Camberwell Now to the techno 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 The Evens. All the underground hits.
All The Blackbyrds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Certain Ratio 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-101,
Tres Demented,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cameo,
E-Dancer,
This Heat,
Little Man,
Clear Light,
Bluetip,
Joe Smooth,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lou Christie,
Bush Tetras,
Qualms,
Motorama,
Gil Scott Heron,
Eve St. Jones,
Isaac Hayes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Offenders,
Cheater Slicks,
Audionom,
Nick Fraelich,
Spandau Ballet,
Nas,
K-Klass,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Delta 5,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Misunderstood,
The Victims,
Marmalade,
Brothers Johnson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lyres,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
D'Angelo,
CMW,
Procol Harum,
Adolescents,
Ronnie Foster,
Ken Boothe,
Sex Pistols,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lucky Dragons,
Danielle Patucci,
The Smoke,
Quadrant,
Public Image Ltd.,
cv313,
The Flesh Eaters,
Alphaville,
Althea and Donna,
Heaven 17,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
MC5,
Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science.
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.