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 South Sudan and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 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 Bronski Beat to the disco 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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Amazonics,
Schoolly D,
LL Cool J,
Severed Heads,
Duran Duran,
Porter Ricks,
Ice-T,
Isaac Hayes,
These Immortal Souls,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Crooked Eye,
Althea and Donna,
Rufus Thomas,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Arab on Radar,
Faraquet,
Boredoms,
Black Moon,
Jimmy McGriff,
Q and Not U,
Hardrive,
Los Fastidios,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rosa Yemen,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kevin Saunderson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tom Boy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Thompson Twins,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
June Days,
The Cramps,
The Blackbyrds,
The Remains,
Audionom,
Michelle Simonal,
Juan Atkins,
Drive Like Jehu,
Faust,
Das Ding,
Sandy B,
Godley & Creme,
Half Japanese,
Delon & Dalcan,
Letta Mbulu,
Maurizio,
Icehouse,
Minutemen,
The Human League,
Joey Negro,
The Associates,
Tres Demented,
The Gladiators,
Jesper Dahlback,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Todd Terry,
The Seeds,
JFA,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.