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 Guyana and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fort Wilson Riot record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Magma,
E-Dancer,
Average White Band,
Marc Almond,
Qualms,
Magazine,
The Flesh Eaters,
Delta 5,
Lakeside,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bronski Beat,
Avey Tare,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Mojo Men,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Moebius,
Amon Düül,
Fluxion,
Banda Bassotti,
Mantronix,
Alice Coltrane,
The Leaves,
Minny Pops,
The Vogues,
Al Stewart,
Electric Prunes,
EPMD,
Freddie Wadling,
Porter Ricks,
Rotary Connection,
Anakelly,
Intrusion,
Terrestrial Tones,
Maurizio,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Fall,
Moby Grape,
New Age Steppers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Essential Logic,
UT,
The Velvet Underground,
Mad Mike,
Livin' Joy,
R.M.O.,
Ronnie Foster,
Gong,
The Evens,
Ten City,
FM Einheit,
Deakin,
Roxette,
Sound Behaviour,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Donald Byrd,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.