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 South Africa and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 Mumbai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 organ 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lightning Bolt 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
Reagan Youth,
The Standells,
the Bar-Kays,
Fluxion,
Mantronix,
Rotary Connection,
Lucky Dragons,
Easy Going,
Slave,
In Retrospect,
Deepchord,
Vladislav Delay,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bill Near,
Basic Channel,
Sister Nancy,
Ronnie Foster,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Au Pairs,
the Sonics,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Chris & Cosey,
These Immortal Souls,
Ten City,
Alice Coltrane,
The Vogues,
Scientists,
The Evens,
Sun Ra,
Mr. Review,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Chrome,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mandrill,
Robert Wyatt,
DNA,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Q and Not U,
Intrusion,
Loose Ends,
Rapeman,
Subhumans,
Sugar Minott,
Jacques Brel,
Don Cherry,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Durutti Column,
The Walker Brothers,
Suburban Knight,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eric Dolphy,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lou Christie,
ABC,
Sonny Sharrock,
Scan 7,
Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles.
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.