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 Slovenia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Deepchord to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sisters of Mercy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
The Invisible,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
In Retrospect,
Sight & Sound,
The Leaves,
Alphaville,
Scion,
Outsiders,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gang of Four,
David McCallum,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Unrelated Segments,
Roxy Music,
Simply Red,
Flipper,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ossler,
Clear Light,
Angry Samoans,
Newcleus,
The Skatalites,
Bad Manners,
Black Moon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Girls At Our Best!,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dorothy Ashby,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Velvet Underground,
JFA,
Royal Trux,
Lucky Dragons,
Funky Four + One,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Black Bananas,
Icehouse,
Godley & Creme,
The Walker Brothers,
Wally Richardson,
Bobby Byrd,
Joensuu 1685,
Alice Coltrane,
Spoonie Gee,
Todd Terry,
Kenny Larkin,
Young Marble Giants,
Jacob Miller,
Vainqueur,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Shoche,
Skarface,
Joyce Sims,
The Associates,
Lebanon Hanover,
Excepter,
La Düsseldorf,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Slave,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.