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 Yemen and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Eddi Front to the techno 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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gil Scott Heron,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Zero Boys,
Laurel Aitken,
Stereo Dub,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Television Personalities,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
T.S.O.L.,
Derrick Morgan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Yellowson,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Chris & Cosey,
Quantec,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Alice Coltrane,
Fugazi,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Donald Byrd,
Peter & Gordon,
Scrapy,
David Bowie,
Fat Boys,
Procol Harum,
The Moleskins,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rod Modell,
Joy Division,
Soul II Soul,
Nation of Ulysses,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jawbox,
Porter Ricks,
China Crisis,
The Pretty Things,
The Dirtbombs,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Fall,
Rekid,
Dual Sessions,
The Gun Club,
James White and The Blacks,
Terry Callier,
John Cale,
DJ Sneak,
Excepter,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sugar Minott,
In Retrospect,
Icehouse,
Sällskapet,
The Dead C,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rufus Thomas,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Charles Mingus,
DJ Style,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.