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 Philippines and from Stockholm.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 güiro 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 Alice Coltrane to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
The Toasters,
Black Moon,
The Sound,
Kas Product,
Symarip,
Negative Approach,
Stiv Bators,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Loose Ends,
The Blues Magoos,
Nation of Ulysses,
The New Christs,
Carl Craig,
DJ Style,
Moss Icon,
Freddie Wadling,
The Count Five,
Minnie Riperton,
Oneida,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Searchers,
Marvin Gaye,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Shoche,
The Cure,
the Slits,
Roxette,
Tubeway Army,
Little Man,
Pantaleimon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lebanon Hanover,
Trumans Water,
Ken Boothe,
Soulsonic Force,
Danielle Patucci,
Bootsy Collins,
Depeche Mode,
Eurythmics,
The Gun Club,
Hardrive,
Gang Green,
Suburban Knight,
Sun Ra,
Inner City,
Khruangbin,
Jacob Miller,
The Barracudas,
The Saints,
LL Cool J,
Main Source,
Model 500,
Ossler,
Minny Pops,
Groovy Waters,
Arab on Radar,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pussy Galore,
Monolake,
David McCallum,
Mission of Burma,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.