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 Malawi and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Masters at Work to the rap 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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Judy Mowatt 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pierre Henry,
Skaos,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Easy Going,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Zapp,
Minor Threat,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Crispy Ambulance,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rosa Yemen,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lou Reed,
Dead Boys,
The Gladiators,
Panda Bear,
Matthew Bourne,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fluxion,
Susan Cadogan,
Marmalade,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Stooges,
KRS-One,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Slackers,
Essential Logic,
Excepter,
Lower 48,
Minny Pops,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Metal Thangz,
Nico,
Janne Schatter,
Flash Fearless,
Connie Case,
Nik Kershaw,
Lyres,
DJ Sneak,
Gastr Del Sol,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Velvet Underground,
Crime,
The Slits,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Swell Maps,
Neu!,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gang Gang Dance,
Agitation Free,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Andrew Hill,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Toasters,
T. Rex,
ABC,
Television,
Joe Finger,
Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone.
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.