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 Bahamas and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 DJ Style to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Remains. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rotary Connection,
U.S. Maple,
The Seeds,
Pet Shop Boys,
Aswad,
Altered Images,
Gil Scott Heron,
Swans,
Unrelated Segments,
Echospace,
Kas Product,
Technova,
The Gories,
Boz Scaggs,
Khruangbin,
Oblivians,
Tomorrow,
Joyce Sims,
Massinfluence,
The American Breed,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nirvana,
Amon Düül,
Minny Pops,
Warsaw,
Curtis Mayfield,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Misunderstood,
Inner City,
Iggy Pop,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Chris & Cosey,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Reagan Youth,
The Gap Band,
Barbara Tucker,
Peter and Kerry,
Rakim,
Marc Almond,
Matthew Halsall,
Radio Birdman,
Nik Kershaw,
Faust,
Patti Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deepchord,
Crispian St. Peters,
the Human League,
Scott Walker,
Fugazi,
Con Funk Shun,
Lungfish,
Matthew Bourne,
Roxy Music,
Mary Jane Girls,
Leonard Cohen,
Hardrive,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.