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 Norway and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Procol Harum to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sixth Finger,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Joe Smooth,
The Motions,
Arab on Radar,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bill Near,
The Mummies,
ABC,
Eden Ahbez,
Lou Reed,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dennis Brown,
Crash Course in Science,
PIL,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jeff Lynne,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eli Mardock,
Neu!,
The Black Dice,
Ten City,
Flipper,
Amazonics,
The Moleskins,
Reagan Youth,
Trumans Water,
Peter and Kerry,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Marmalade,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
James White and The Blacks,
The Barracudas,
Liliput,
Silicon Teens,
Supertramp,
Joy Division,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Human League,
Black Sheep,
The Shadows of Knight,
Zapp,
Grey Daturas,
John Cale,
The Smoke,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Mo-Dettes,
The Misunderstood,
Funky Four + One,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fat Boys,
Tears for Fears,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Main Source,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dead Boys,
Flamin' Groovies,
Radio Birdman,
Skaos,
Aloha Tigers,
Gong,
Scrapy,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.