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 Serbia and from Copenhagen.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Jakarta.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Infiniti to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter & Gordon,
Thompson Twins,
Boogie Down Productions,
Chrome,
AZ,
Jeff Mills,
Japan,
Audionom,
Lyres,
Joy Division,
Blancmange,
Unrelated Segments,
The Index,
Man Parrish,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kevin Saunderson,
Malaria!,
Roxette,
Mark Hollis,
Kurtis Blow,
Slick Rick,
It's A Beautiful Day,
James White and The Blacks,
La Düsseldorf,
Ludus,
Mad Mike,
kango's stein massive,
Idris Muhammad,
Subhumans,
The Grass Roots,
The American Breed,
The Misunderstood,
Lungfish,
Fear,
Deepchord,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Juan Atkins,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Human League,
Lee Hazlewood,
Erasure,
Eurythmics,
Crispy Ambulance,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Maleditus Sound,
A Certain Ratio,
Cluster,
Massinfluence,
Brick,
The Blues Magoos,
Ultravox,
Essential Logic,
Gong,
Second Layer,
Bronski Beat,
The Birthday Party,
cv313,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.