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 Egypt and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Derrick May to the jazz 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 Fifty Foot Hose. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
This Heat,
Erasure,
Robert Görl,
Bill Wells,
The Toasters,
Davy DMX,
Ituana,
Gichy Dan,
Faust,
Cymande,
H. Thieme,
Amon Düül,
Easy Going,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Susan Cadogan,
Newcleus,
Yellowson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lindisfarne,
The Count Five,
Soulsonic Force,
Radio Birdman,
Joe Smooth,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Black Dice,
Radiohead,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rufus Thomas,
The Blues Magoos,
Quadrant,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Skatalites,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Nirvana,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Laurel Aitken,
The Buckinghams,
Maurizio,
Rakim,
The Real Kids,
Soul Sonic Force,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Connie Case,
LL Cool J,
Iggy Pop,
Technova,
Angry Samoans,
Basic Channel,
Mary Jane Girls,
Jawbox,
Lalann,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kas Product,
Severed Heads,
Lower 48,
Moby Grape,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Divine Comedy,
The Litter,
a-ha, a-ha, a-ha, a-ha.
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.