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 Malawi and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Pet Shop Boys 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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All The Remains tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Alarm Clocks,
Half Japanese,
David McCallum,
David Bowie,
The Techniques,
Adolescents,
Au Pairs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rufus Thomas,
The Gladiators,
Pantaleimon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Josef K,
Terry Callier,
Pantytec,
Byron Stingily,
Chris & Cosey,
LL Cool J,
Archie Shepp,
Ohio Players,
Cymande,
Sound Behaviour,
The Gap Band,
MC5,
Aaron Thompson,
T. Rex,
Cameo,
Dawn Penn,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Victims,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Barracudas,
Ultravox,
Clear Light,
Pylon,
Michelle Simonal,
Blancmange,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
La Düsseldorf,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Whodini,
The Leaves,
Cluster,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Popol Vuh,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Skaos,
Underground Resistance,
Dual Sessions,
Essential Logic,
Groovy Waters,
Amazonics,
Harmonia,
Zero Boys,
Grey Daturas,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Grass Roots,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Buckinghams,
Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron.
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.