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 Saudi Arabia and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oblivians,
Rites of Spring,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Blake Baxter,
Todd Rundgren,
Fugazi,
Crime,
Inner City,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Arthur Verocai,
Q65,
Amazonics,
Nils Olav,
FM Einheit,
Roxy Music,
Skriet,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Grandmaster Flash,
Wally Richardson,
Letta Mbulu,
Ohio Players,
The Busters,
Section 25,
Quadrant,
The United States of America,
Animal Collective,
Laurel Aitken,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gang of Four,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fluxion,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Dirtbombs,
Ken Boothe,
Scott Walker,
Yazoo,
Stetsasonic,
Junior Murvin,
Juan Atkins,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Velvet Underground,
Avey Tare,
The Martian,
Von Mondo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nico,
The Kinks,
Warren Ellis,
Schoolly D,
The Angels of Light,
The Pretty Things,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Camouflage,
Rotary Connection,
Sonic Youth,
Maleditus Sound,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jeff Mills,
The Young Rascals,
Deadbeat,
John Holt,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.