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 Nigeria and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Grey Daturas to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terry Callier record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Motorama,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nico,
One Last Wish,
June of 44,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The J.B.'s,
Radiopuhelimet,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Seeds,
A Certain Ratio,
Agitation Free,
Q and Not U,
Scratch Acid,
The Alarm Clocks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Blancmange,
Pulsallama,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Moleskins,
Todd Terry,
The Barracudas,
Pylon,
The Gories,
H. Thieme,
Yaz,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
T. Rex,
Brothers Johnson,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Funky Four + One,
Trumans Water,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Monochrome Set,
Dawn Penn,
Dorothy Ashby,
New Order,
The Fire Engines,
Loose Ends,
The Wake,
Jacques Brel,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Andrew Hill,
Radiohead,
The Stooges,
The Cowsills,
Gong,
The Index,
DJ Style,
Japan,
The Shadows of Knight,
Yusef Lateef,
the Normal,
The Raincoats,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Saints, The Saints, The Saints, The Saints.
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.