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 Sudan and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp 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 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Groovy Waters,
Lalo Schifrin,
Hasil Adkins,
Adolescents,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
World's Most,
Bobby Byrd,
Man Eating Sloth,
Flash Fearless,
Eve St. Jones,
Animal Collective,
Wolf Eyes,
Kerri Chandler,
Andrew Hill,
Black Bananas,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Mantronix,
CMW,
Terrestrial Tones,
Royal Trux,
Ten City,
Barrington Levy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Scientists,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Peter & Gordon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Barracudas,
Q65,
The Selecter,
Scott Walker,
Dorothy Ashby,
a-ha,
Dual Sessions,
Stiv Bators,
Peter and Kerry,
Dark Day,
Ohio Players,
Massinfluence,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Morten Harket,
Donny Hathaway,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Main Source,
The Gun Club,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
John Foxx,
Judy Mowatt,
Visage,
Terry Callier,
Piero Umiliani,
LL Cool J,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Absolute Body Control,
Crispy Ambulance,
Duran Duran,
Junior Murvin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Cure,
The Fall,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.