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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Woodstock.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Radiohead to the grime 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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Aural Exciters,
Scrapy,
KRS-One,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dark Day,
Kenny Larkin,
Malaria!,
Robert Görl,
The Cure,
Fluxion,
Leonard Cohen,
Infiniti,
Essential Logic,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bobby Sherman,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kool Moe Dee,
Young Marble Giants,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Tim Buckley,
Darondo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ultra Naté,
Hot Snakes,
The Angels of Light,
Deadbeat,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kaleidoscope,
Wolf Eyes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Alphaville,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Amon Düül II,
Jawbox,
The Busters,
Wally Richardson,
Shoche,
Siglo XX,
Thee Headcoats,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
James White and The Blacks,
Roger Hodgson,
Zero Boys,
A Certain Ratio,
Neil Young,
The United States of America,
Anakelly,
Black Moon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Frankie Knuckles,
Subhumans,
The Wake,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Slits,
Public Enemy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eric B and Rakim,
Scan 7,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.