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 Sao Paulo.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the 808 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 Delta 5 to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rites of Spring,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Simply Red,
The Fugs,
Minny Pops,
Eli Mardock,
Josef K,
The Beau Brummels,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Star Department,
Dark Day,
Dave Gahan,
Reagan Youth,
Urselle,
Underground Resistance,
Dual Sessions,
The Toasters,
Rosa Yemen,
Funkadelic,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Drexciya,
JFA,
Eric Copeland,
Technova,
Lungfish,
Gang Gang Dance,
Essential Logic,
Roxette,
Nas,
Ossler,
Wire,
The Stooges,
EPMD,
Banda Bassotti,
Freddie Wadling,
The J.B.'s,
Arcadia,
Kool Moe Dee,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Brass Construction,
Robert Görl,
Rakim,
Unrelated Segments,
X-102,
Shuggie Otis,
Marc Almond,
Slave,
Wally Richardson,
Piero Umiliani,
Godley & Creme,
Skriet,
Adolescents,
Liliput,
Barclay James Harvest,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kas Product,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.