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 Fiji and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 Johannesburg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 10cc to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Mo-Dettes. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
Sound Behaviour,
Slick Rick,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ornette Coleman,
The Birthday Party,
Jacob Miller,
Groovy Waters,
LL Cool J,
The Offenders,
Dead Boys,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
Warren Ellis,
Kaleidoscope,
Lindisfarne,
Main Source,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lakeside,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Divine Comedy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Blackbyrds,
Tres Demented,
Flash Fearless,
Roy Ayers,
Ronan,
Soul II Soul,
The Walker Brothers,
Intrusion,
Scratch Acid,
Slave,
The Smoke,
Joey Negro,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Amazonics,
The Skatalites,
Jeff Lynne,
Skriet,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Todd Terry,
The Count Five,
The Misunderstood,
Barrington Levy,
Marvin Gaye,
Rotary Connection,
Scott Walker,
Siglo XX,
Das Ding,
Cymande,
John Lydon,
Yazoo,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The United States of America,
Lebanon Hanover,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.