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 Comoros and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Golliwogs to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Pulsallama,
cv313,
Glambeats Corp.,
Interpol,
Eden Ahbez,
Gastr Del Sol,
Skaos,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Wings,
Marshall Jefferson,
Junior Murvin,
Gang Green,
Skriet,
Joyce Sims,
Essential Logic,
In Retrospect,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Alton Ellis,
Desert Stars,
Mary Jane Girls,
David McCallum,
Gang Starr,
Los Fastidios,
Fatback Band,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Piero Umiliani,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Pretty Things,
K-Klass,
Supertramp,
Steve Hackett,
Joe Smooth,
Amon Düül II,
Monolake,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Depeche Mode,
Lou Reed,
Slick Rick,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Mark Hollis,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Quadrant,
Roy Ayers,
Trumans Water,
Absolute Body Control,
Bobby Sherman,
Lightning Bolt,
Japan,
Fad Gadget,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eurythmics,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Golliwogs,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Barclay James Harvest,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Black Bananas,
Brass Construction,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.