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 Taiwan and from Johannesburg.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Heaven 17 to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order 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 snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Camberwell Now,
Stetsasonic,
Wire,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eddi Front,
Funkadelic,
The Offenders,
Masters at Work,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ornette Coleman,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Misunderstood,
Sonny Sharrock,
Brothers Johnson,
These Immortal Souls,
Bizarre Inc.,
Idris Muhammad,
The Move,
H. Thieme,
Soulsonic Force,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The United States of America,
Little Man,
The Tremeloes,
Au Pairs,
Radio Birdman,
Kas Product,
Radiohead,
Warsaw,
Khruangbin,
Thompson Twins,
Lindisfarne,
The Doors,
Barry Ungar,
Crooked Eye,
Marvin Gaye,
Ultimate Spinach,
Simply Red,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Saccharine Trust,
Jesper Dahlback,
Scion,
The Buckinghams,
The Dead C,
Ten City,
The Mummies,
Aural Exciters,
Erasure,
Ossler,
Marcia Griffiths,
Iggy Pop,
The Dirtbombs,
Barrington Levy,
a-ha,
The Beau Brummels,
Lou Christie,
Deadbeat,
The Angels of Light,
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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.