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 San Marino and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ossler,
the Human League,
Unrelated Segments,
Lou Christie,
Todd Rundgren,
Flipper,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pulsallama,
Interpol,
X-101,
The American Breed,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Radiohead,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Stooges,
Negative Approach,
Charles Mingus,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Soul II Soul,
Flash Fearless,
Cybotron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Black Dice,
Crime,
Howard Jones,
Minnie Riperton,
LL Cool J,
La Düsseldorf,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kerri Chandler,
Little Man,
Connie Case,
Yazoo,
The Residents,
Cluster,
Maurizio,
Whodini,
Juan Atkins,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
8 Eyed Spy,
Graham Central Station,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Angels of Light,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marine Girls,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Robert Hood,
Sixth Finger,
Gichy Dan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Country Teasers,
Derrick May,
Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day.
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.