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 Venezuela and from Shanghai.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Gang of Four to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Electric Prunes,
Bill Wells,
A Certain Ratio,
David McCallum,
The Cowsills,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gregory Isaacs,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gang Green,
Kurtis Blow,
Althea and Donna,
DNA,
June of 44,
Dawn Penn,
Black Bananas,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Chrome,
The Gap Band,
Arthur Verocai,
CMW,
Bluetip,
Pere Ubu,
Television Personalities,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Slick Rick,
the Swans,
Vladislav Delay,
Scientists,
Quando Quango,
Terry Callier,
The United States of America,
The Evens,
Ludus,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Absolute Body Control,
Donny Hathaway,
Nirvana,
Country Teasers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Roger Hodgson,
Peter and Kerry,
The Cure,
The Young Rascals,
The Zeros,
The Music Machine,
Alphaville,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cheater Slicks,
Negative Approach,
Al Stewart,
Pole,
Jerry Gold Smith,
D'Angelo,
Organ,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
10cc,
Piero Umiliani,
Derrick May,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.