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 Sierra Leone and from Seoul.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Brothers Johnson to the funk 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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
The Gories,
Wire,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Black Sheep,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sound Behaviour,
A Certain Ratio,
Joe Smooth,
Visage,
The Gladiators,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kool Moe Dee,
Electric Prunes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Drive Like Jehu,
Moby Grape,
Warsaw,
Von Mondo,
Colin Newman,
World's Most,
Faraquet,
The Beau Brummels,
Nas,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Arcadia,
The Pop Group,
Sällskapet,
The Human League,
Crash Course in Science,
Cal Tjader,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Real Kids,
The Blackbyrds,
Don Cherry,
Fela Kuti,
In Retrospect,
Camberwell Now,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bill Wells,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ralphi Rosario,
Urselle,
Black Bananas,
La Düsseldorf,
Dennis Brown,
The Busters,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kerri Chandler,
Procol Harum,
The Grass Roots,
Peter & Gordon,
Symarip,
Jeff Lynne,
Amon Düül II,
The Seeds,
Television Personalities,
Neil Young,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.