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 Taiwan 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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Susan Cadogan to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Henry Cow. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Fire Engines,
Glambeats Corp.,
Oneida,
The Count Five,
Ituana,
In Retrospect,
Minor Threat,
Pierre Henry,
Jesper Dahlback,
Animal Collective,
The Mummies,
The Move,
Swell Maps,
Josef K,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ossler,
Organ,
Funkadelic,
Cecil Taylor,
Faraquet,
Echospace,
The Victims,
Roxette,
Gerry Rafferty,
Minnie Riperton,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kurtis Blow,
Crash Course in Science,
The Vogues,
David Bowie,
The Kinks,
Amazonics,
Wire,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Massinfluence,
Jacob Miller,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Boz Scaggs,
Yellowson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jeff Mills,
the Sonics,
Flash Fearless,
The Litter,
Agitation Free,
Duran Duran,
Sunsets and Hearts,
T. Rex,
Severed Heads,
Masters at Work,
Bobby Hutcherson,
John Holt,
Pylon,
Cheater Slicks,
Nils Olav,
Black Pus,
Interpol,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.