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 St Lucia and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Milan.
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 808 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Aural Exciters,
Shuggie Otis,
Matthew Bourne,
Excepter,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Mandrill,
Freddie Wadling,
Radiopuhelimet,
Crispy Ambulance,
Dawn Penn,
Bang On A Can,
The Tremeloes,
the Soft Cell,
Country Teasers,
James White and The Blacks,
Lower 48,
Bill Wells,
Fear,
Marcia Griffiths,
H. Thieme,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eli Mardock,
Ken Boothe,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Technova,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Groovy Waters,
Neil Young,
Babytalk,
Ultimate Spinach,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Music Machine,
The Cure,
Radio Birdman,
La Düsseldorf,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Alphaville,
Parry Music,
Reuben Wilson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Fraelich,
The Count Five,
Al Stewart,
The Offenders,
The Human League,
Delta 5,
Severed Heads,
Barrington Levy,
Cal Tjader,
John Lydon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rod Modell,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Smiths,
Mo-Dettes,
Eden Ahbez,
Soul Sonic Force,
Black Bananas,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Juan Atkins,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.