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 Macedonia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 organ 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 Jesper Dahlback to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Womack tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Frankie Knuckles,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Average White Band,
The Techniques,
Sex Pistols,
Trumans Water,
The Grass Roots,
Crispy Ambulance,
Junior Murvin,
Pierre Henry,
Connie Case,
Y Pants,
Desert Stars,
cv313,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The J.B.'s,
Lalo Schifrin,
Alison Limerick,
Sällskapet,
R.M.O.,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cluster,
Scott Walker,
Kayak,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Offenders,
PIL,
Maurizio,
Sandy B,
Section 25,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Whodini,
Groovy Waters,
Jeff Lynne,
Lou Reed,
The Divine Comedy,
Bronski Beat,
Jimmy McGriff,
A Certain Ratio,
Sexual Harrassment,
Zero Boys,
Rites of Spring,
The Barracudas,
Byron Stingily,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Simply Red,
The Skatalites,
EPMD,
Heaven 17,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lucky Dragons,
Royal Trux,
The Moleskins,
Yaz,
The Black Dice,
Panda Bear,
Ice-T,
Deakin,
Ken Boothe,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fad Gadget,
Visage,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.