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 Peru and from Mexico City.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Fort Wilson Riot to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
Guru Guru,
June of 44,
B.T. Express,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Quantec,
Jeff Lynne,
The Knickerbockers,
The Cowsills,
DNA,
Ultra Naté,
Wire,
Accadde A,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Pretty Things,
Black Pus,
The Tremeloes,
Brand Nubian,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Joensuu 1685,
Sun Ra,
Hashim,
Banda Bassotti,
Lakeside,
Slave,
Eurythmics,
Essential Logic,
The Busters,
Al Stewart,
Iggy Pop,
Ohio Players,
Pere Ubu,
Judy Mowatt,
Joey Negro,
Sun City Girls,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Wake,
Rhythm & Sound,
Livin' Joy,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
FM Einheit,
The Birthday Party,
Bobby Byrd,
X-Ray Spex,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Junior Murvin,
The New Christs,
Make Up,
The Stooges,
Nils Olav,
Bizarre Inc.,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mandrill,
Harry Pussy,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
A Certain Ratio,
Los Fastidios,
Ultravox,
Blake Baxter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.