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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Hong Kong.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Marmalade to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Almond record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brothers Johnson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Severed Heads,
The Walker Brothers,
Roger Hodgson,
The Monochrome Set,
Peter & Gordon,
The Doors,
One Last Wish,
ABBA,
Moebius,
Bill Wells,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Skarface,
CMW,
Bootsy Collins,
The Beau Brummels,
The Last Poets,
Tubeway Army,
The Selecter,
Jimmy McGriff,
cv313,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Delta 5,
Ralphi Rosario,
Quadrant,
Little Man,
Simply Red,
Toni Rubio,
Icehouse,
The Kinks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Aloha Tigers,
Josef K,
Aaron Thompson,
Stereo Dub,
Rapeman,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Nik Kershaw,
Sonic Youth,
Nick Fraelich,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Spoonie Gee,
Panda Bear,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Associates,
Marcia Griffiths,
Tom Boy,
The Happenings,
Ten City,
Soulsonic Force,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Unrelated Segments,
New Order,
Sarah Menescal,
Pussy Galore,
U.S. Maple,
The Blackbyrds,
The Gladiators,
Lungfish,
Zero Boys,
Supertramp,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.