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 Afghanistan and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Erasure to the disco 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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Dave Clark Five,
Maurizio,
Andrew Hill,
Fluxion,
Warsaw,
Colin Newman,
Kayak,
Rufus Thomas,
The Associates,
Sound Behaviour,
Joe Finger,
Q and Not U,
Hashim,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Music Machine,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
X-102,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Black Dice,
Boredoms,
New Order,
Dawn Penn,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Main Source,
Metal Thangz,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Television,
Absolute Body Control,
Mark Hollis,
The Smoke,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Silicon Teens,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Leaves,
Lalann,
Yellowson,
Pagans,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Gladiators,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Matthew Halsall,
Faust,
Television Personalities,
Nirvana,
Eddi Front,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Urselle,
Grandmaster Flash,
Accadde A,
Boogie Down Productions,
Deadbeat,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Alarm Clocks,
Can,
The Beau Brummels,
Harry Pussy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.