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 Nepal and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 DJ Sneak 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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock 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 '60s 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 DNA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Procol Harum,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Joensuu 1685,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Pop Group,
Steve Hackett,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Standells,
Lakeside,
Babytalk,
Funkadelic,
Bobby Womack,
Organ,
Guru Guru,
Little Man,
LL Cool J,
Derrick May,
The Beau Brummels,
Delta 5,
Arcadia,
Derrick Morgan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Von Mondo,
Eden Ahbez,
MC5,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Deakin,
One Last Wish,
The Searchers,
The Offenders,
Soft Cell,
Gong,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Matthew Halsall,
Suburban Knight,
The Slits,
Youth Brigade,
Neil Young,
Morten Harket,
Alton Ellis,
Jerry's Kids,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rakim,
John Lydon,
Sam Rivers,
The Index,
The Skatalites,
Yaz,
The Invisible,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Michelle Simonal,
New Order,
The Star Department,
Roxy Music,
Mission of Burma,
Erykah Badu,
Pantytec,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.