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 Serbia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Laurel Aitken to the techno 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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Soft Machine,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Move,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Neon Judgement,
Babytalk,
Derrick May,
Neu!,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Doobie Brothers,
10cc,
Black Bananas,
Talk Talk,
The Moleskins,
Mandrill,
Jeff Mills,
The J.B.'s,
Archie Shepp,
Chris Corsano,
Scan 7,
Hoover,
Ultra Naté,
Television Personalities,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kerri Chandler,
The Moody Blues,
a-ha,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sound Behaviour,
The Cure,
Hasil Adkins,
Ronan,
The Sound,
Anakelly,
The Five Americans,
John Coltrane,
Newcleus,
CMW,
Half Japanese,
Moby Grape,
Eric Dolphy,
Joensuu 1685,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pagans,
Hashim,
Patti Smith,
The Skatalites,
The Tremeloes,
The Fortunes,
Saccharine Trust,
Suicide,
MC5,
Royal Trux,
Make Up,
Brass Construction,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Icehouse,
Bauhaus,
Excepter,
Oneida, Oneida, Oneida, Oneida.
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.