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 Togo and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Ludus to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ultimate Spinach. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pole record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Electric Prunes,
The Fortunes,
Aswad,
Bob Dylan,
Traffic Nightmare,
Erykah Badu,
June of 44,
Can,
Marmalade,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
a-ha,
Matthew Bourne,
Matthew Halsall,
The Skatalites,
Gang Starr,
Patti Smith,
Echospace,
Sexual Harrassment,
Audionom,
Excepter,
Nick Fraelich,
Bronski Beat,
Altered Images,
Gong,
Piero Umiliani,
Babytalk,
Gang of Four,
DNA,
Sister Nancy,
Make Up,
The Durutti Column,
The New Christs,
New Order,
Be Bop Deluxe,
La Düsseldorf,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Fuzztones,
Jerry's Kids,
The Birthday Party,
10cc,
The Cramps,
Scott Walker,
Oblivians,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sugar Minott,
Avey Tare,
Inner City,
Scientists,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Public Enemy,
Bush Tetras,
Fort Wilson Riot,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Big Daddy Kane,
Eddi Front,
Vainqueur,
Ultra Naté,
Bill Near,
Franke,
Little Man,
Brick,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.