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 Lagos.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Japan to the dance 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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Letta Mbulu,
Maleditus Sound,
Shuggie Otis,
The Monks,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kaleidoscope,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Aswad,
MDC,
Derrick Morgan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Grauzone,
Pere Ubu,
Echospace,
John Foxx,
Depeche Mode,
Sandy B,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dave Gahan,
Skriet,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Silicon Teens,
Curtis Mayfield,
Alphaville,
Theoretical Girls,
The Music Machine,
Sixth Finger,
Connie Case,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Glambeats Corp.,
Deakin,
The Star Department,
Aaron Thompson,
Kenny Larkin,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pulsallama,
48th St. Collective,
Franke,
Mandrill,
Black Moon,
The Dave Clark Five,
Eden Ahbez,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
X-102,
Los Fastidios,
Josef K,
The Gories,
Jacob Miller,
Urselle,
Wire,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Dennis Brown,
L. Decosne,
Nico,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bush Tetras,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Chrome,
Motorama,
Brand Nubian,
Rufus Thomas,
Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters.
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.