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 Spain and from Portland.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Roger Hodgson to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Eric Copeland. All the underground hits.
All Rites of Spring tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Kas Product,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Pop Group,
The Fuzztones,
Fatback Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
June of 44,
Anthony Braxton,
a-ha,
Buzzcocks,
MDC,
Altered Images,
Soul II Soul,
Kaleidoscope,
Monks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Toni Rubio,
Chris Corsano,
New Age Steppers,
Wolf Eyes,
Black Bananas,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Invisible,
Rotary Connection,
Kurtis Blow,
the Normal,
The Residents,
The Golliwogs,
Wasted Youth,
Royal Trux,
CMW,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Moss Icon,
Bad Manners,
Tommy Roe,
Cameo,
Sister Nancy,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Seeds,
Joey Negro,
Robert Görl,
Faraquet,
Kerri Chandler,
Pantytec,
The Martian,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Warren Ellis,
Talk Talk,
Sandy B,
The Victims,
Dawn Penn,
Trumans Water,
Silicon Teens,
Dual Sessions,
Marine Girls,
Yazoo,
cv313,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.