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 Belize and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
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 In Retrospect to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rapeman,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Offenders,
Janne Schatter,
Radiopuhelimet,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Monochrome Set,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Fortunes,
the Swans,
Mark Hollis,
The Techniques,
Dennis Brown,
The Moleskins,
Gil Scott Heron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gabor Szabo,
Thee Headcoats,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Roger Hodgson,
New Age Steppers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Aaron Thompson,
Flipper,
The Mojo Men,
Talk Talk,
EPMD,
The Remains,
Todd Terry,
The Vogues,
LL Cool J,
Inner City,
Soulsonic Force,
David McCallum,
Unrelated Segments,
The Doobie Brothers,
Robert Hood,
MC5,
Liliput,
Newcleus,
Avey Tare,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
T. Rex,
Johnny Clarke,
UT,
The Cowsills,
48th St. Collective,
Warsaw,
Nils Olav,
Erasure,
Guru Guru,
Nik Kershaw,
Kerri Chandler,
Ultra Naté,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Mantronix,
Roxy Music,
Morten Harket,
Brick,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Icehouse,
Franke,
Fela Kuti,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.