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 Cameroon and from Calgary.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 spring reverb 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 Amon Düül II to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar 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 mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Scientists,
Big Daddy Kane,
Idris Muhammad,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Yellowson,
Pantytec,
The Associates,
The Walker Brothers,
Jacob Miller,
Ultravox,
A Certain Ratio,
Camouflage,
Black Bananas,
Visage,
Television Personalities,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Pop Group,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mission of Burma,
Crooked Eye,
Whodini,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Johnny Clarke,
OOIOO,
Vainqueur,
Althea and Donna,
Brass Construction,
Barbara Tucker,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Cowsills,
Fat Boys,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Desert Stars,
the Human League,
Juan Atkins,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Mummies,
Franke,
Moby Grape,
Davy DMX,
Morten Harket,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Fire Engines,
Television,
Jerry's Kids,
Marvin Gaye,
Max Romeo,
The Smoke,
Ken Boothe,
Agent Orange,
kango's stein massive,
Jeff Mills,
Skriet,
FM Einheit,
Massinfluence,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.