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 Lucia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Porter Ricks to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers Ubiquity tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
The Modern Lovers,
Minnie Riperton,
Alison Limerick,
Brass Construction,
Guru Guru,
Second Layer,
New York Dolls,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Standells,
Agitation Free,
Wally Richardson,
Morten Harket,
David Axelrod,
Alton Ellis,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Country Teasers,
Black Moon,
Porter Ricks,
The Associates,
Warren Ellis,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Gladiators,
Shuggie Otis,
Reagan Youth,
Skriet,
Don Cherry,
U.S. Maple,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Red Krayola,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
This Heat,
The Toasters,
Underground Resistance,
Roy Ayers,
Barrington Levy,
Accadde A,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Suburban Knight,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Girls At Our Best!,
Yellowson,
Buzzcocks,
Sarah Menescal,
Pussy Galore,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Joe Smooth,
Rufus Thomas,
Fat Boys,
Marcia Griffiths,
Marvin Gaye,
John Foxx,
Magma,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Anakelly,
Los Fastidios,
Lalann,
the Germs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.