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 Angola and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 theremin 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 Jesper Dahlback to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gastr Del Sol,
John Cale,
Excepter,
Circle Jerks,
Dave Gahan,
The Leaves,
Depeche Mode,
Sound Behaviour,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Techniques,
Qualms,
Scratch Acid,
Roxy Music,
Lou Christie,
Robert Görl,
The Victims,
The Gun Club,
Intrusion,
Dawn Penn,
X-102,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Magazine,
Aural Exciters,
Pylon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Marshall Jefferson,
X-101,
Monolake,
Blake Baxter,
Rufus Thomas,
The Names,
Drive Like Jehu,
Carl Craig,
Ultra Naté,
Sixth Finger,
Pharoah Sanders,
Television Personalities,
Ludus,
Pierre Henry,
Aswad,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The New Christs,
Wings,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rekid,
Bobby Sherman,
Subhumans,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Royal Trux,
Technova,
Mark Hollis,
Matthew Halsall,
Saccharine Trust,
Guru Guru,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.