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 Slovakia and from Bologna.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 harpsichord 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 Yazoo to the electroclash 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 Traffic Nightmare. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bauhaus,
The Happenings,
Zapp,
Fatback Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Crispian St. Peters,
Roxette,
Gil Scott Heron,
Minnie Riperton,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Boz Scaggs,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
China Crisis,
Dark Day,
Neu!,
The Divine Comedy,
The Monochrome Set,
Sound Behaviour,
Hashim,
Ice-T,
Curtis Mayfield,
Andrew Hill,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Altered Images,
Lou Reed,
Blossom Toes,
Terry Callier,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Sound,
the Germs,
Sparks,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Smoke,
Sister Nancy,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lakeside,
The Pop Group,
Basic Channel,
Pet Shop Boys,
Niagra,
Pantaleimon,
The Leaves,
The United States of America,
R.M.O.,
Reagan Youth,
Jimmy McGriff,
Max Romeo,
UT,
Bronski Beat,
Mantronix,
Lou Christie,
The Buckinghams,
The Remains,
Maurizio,
This Heat,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Motions,
The Offenders,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.