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 Germany and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Gregory Isaacs to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All The Dirtbombs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Zero Boys,
Roxette,
Marc Almond,
One Last Wish,
Rotary Connection,
Rufus Thomas,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jimmy McGriff,
Y Pants,
kango's stein massive,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Boredoms,
T. Rex,
Animal Collective,
The Music Machine,
Saccharine Trust,
Ornette Coleman,
Reagan Youth,
ABBA,
Isaac Hayes,
Marine Girls,
Quantec,
Moss Icon,
Quando Quango,
Alice Coltrane,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Real Kids,
Stetsasonic,
Joensuu 1685,
Mary Jane Girls,
Stockholm Monsters,
Goldenarms,
Electric Prunes,
the Human League,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Velvet Underground,
Masters at Work,
Royal Trux,
Qualms,
Clear Light,
New Order,
Grandmaster Flash,
Can,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bizarre Inc.,
Matthew Halsall,
Country Teasers,
cv313,
Mo-Dettes,
Janne Schatter,
Intrusion,
Steve Hackett,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The United States of America,
Half Japanese,
Laurel Aitken,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Banda Bassotti,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.