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 Tonga and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Paris.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Maurizio to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Letta Mbulu. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
Ralphi Rosario,
Amazonics,
Dorothy Ashby,
John Lydon,
David Axelrod,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Vainqueur,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lindisfarne,
Kurtis Blow,
Saccharine Trust,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jeru the Damaja,
Average White Band,
Franke,
X-Ray Spex,
Todd Terry,
Bobby Womack,
The Pretty Things,
Ronnie Foster,
Nas,
Sonic Youth,
Sugar Minott,
Jeff Lynne,
Ohio Players,
The Cowsills,
Ponytail,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Pere Ubu,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bush Tetras,
D'Angelo,
Colin Newman,
Idris Muhammad,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jacob Miller,
10cc,
Ten City,
Arcadia,
Yazoo,
Piero Umiliani,
EPMD,
Nirvana,
Hardrive,
Shuggie Otis,
the Soft Cell,
Thompson Twins,
Joey Negro,
Alphaville,
The Moody Blues,
The Happenings,
Scott Walker,
Symarip,
Cameo,
The Moleskins,
Matthew Halsall,
Deepchord,
Oneida,
Maurizio,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.