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 Georgia and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Dirtbombs to the jazz 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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Donny Hathaway tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Scion,
Altered Images,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Camouflage,
Roxette,
Glenn Branca,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Television Personalities,
Cal Tjader,
AZ,
The Real Kids,
Scientists,
Vladislav Delay,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Mo-Dettes,
New York Dolls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Terry Callier,
Joey Negro,
Gil Scott Heron,
Delta 5,
Marvin Gaye,
Lindisfarne,
Half Japanese,
The Zeros,
Smog,
Fort Wilson Riot,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Busters,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Alphaville,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Morten Harket,
Curtis Mayfield,
Can,
Q and Not U,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Fela Kuti,
DJ Style,
The Index,
Ultravox,
Hasil Adkins,
MC5,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ultra Naté,
Bobby Womack,
The Cowsills,
Cheater Slicks,
Dennis Brown,
Goldenarms,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Matthew Halsall,
the Slits,
CMW,
Second Layer,
Theoretical Girls,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.