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 Lebanon and from Taipei.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bronski Beat to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Lizzy Mercier Descloux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nik Kershaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Osbourne,
The Martian,
The Stooges,
the Sonics,
Erasure,
Das Ding,
The Fire Engines,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Amon Düül,
Make Up,
Freddie Wadling,
Neu!,
Newcleus,
Intrusion,
Michelle Simonal,
Suicide,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fluxion,
The Skatalites,
Unwound,
UT,
Cabaret Voltaire,
kango's stein massive,
The Birthday Party,
X-101,
Peter and Kerry,
The Velvet Underground,
JFA,
Morten Harket,
Babytalk,
The Index,
Minny Pops,
Aaron Thompson,
Jacques Brel,
The Doobie Brothers,
Metal Thangz,
Aswad,
Ronan,
David McCallum,
Arcadia,
Gichy Dan,
Siglo XX,
Tropical Tobacco,
John Lydon,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cameo,
the Swans,
Model 500,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
One Last Wish,
Tubeway Army,
Black Moon,
Eric Dolphy,
Bill Wells,
Sight & Sound,
Avey Tare,
Man Parrish,
Depeche Mode,
Rekid,
Accadde A,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.