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 Australia and from London.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 oboe 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 Sonny Sharrock to the crunk 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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Altered Images tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marvin Gaye,
Sun Ra,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Archie Shepp,
Terrestrial Tones,
Lower 48,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Grauzone,
Avey Tare,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The J.B.'s,
The Zeros,
Echospace,
The Five Americans,
Bush Tetras,
Janne Schatter,
Tomorrow,
Los Fastidios,
Roger Hodgson,
Anthony Braxton,
Banda Bassotti,
Surgeon,
Fear,
Roy Ayers,
Reuben Wilson,
Moby Grape,
Main Source,
Marshall Jefferson,
Suburban Knight,
Minny Pops,
Amon Düül,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Barracudas,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Moebius,
Gichy Dan,
Black Sheep,
UT,
The Count Five,
Oneida,
Godley & Creme,
Bauhaus,
Guru Guru,
Zapp,
Lucky Dragons,
Agent Orange,
Funky Four + One,
Half Japanese,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jacob Miller,
Rapeman,
FM Einheit,
La Düsseldorf,
Moss Icon,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Toasters,
Anakelly,
Drive Like Jehu,
Saccharine Trust,
Josef K,
John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon.
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.