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 Vanuatu and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 spring reverb 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 Mandrill to the disco 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-102 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 an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tommy Roe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gabor Szabo,
Rotary Connection,
Shuggie Otis,
UT,
Janne Schatter,
The Monks,
Section 25,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lightning Bolt,
Moss Icon,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Velvet Underground,
Audionom,
Talk Talk,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bush Tetras,
Pulsallama,
Pantytec,
Black Moon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Divine Comedy,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sexual Harrassment,
Roxette,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sun Ra,
David Bowie,
Monks,
Curtis Mayfield,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nik Kershaw,
Brothers Johnson,
The Index,
Flash Fearless,
F. McDonald,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Fortunes,
The Searchers,
Khruangbin,
Ludus,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kurtis Blow,
Dave Gahan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Andrew Hill,
Peter & Gordon,
Underground Resistance,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Trojans,
the Association,
Eden Ahbez,
8 Eyed Spy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Eve St. Jones,
Accadde A,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Fuzztones,
Minny Pops,
The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood.
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.