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 Czech Republic and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 Seoul and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Index to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All U.S. Maple tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl 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 a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Interpol,
The Saints,
Sam Rivers,
Spoonie Gee,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David Axelrod,
The Kinks,
R.M.O.,
Jimmy McGriff,
Metal Thangz,
The Offenders,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Aaron Thompson,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bill Near,
One Last Wish,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Busters,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pantaleimon,
Bronski Beat,
Wire,
Pierre Henry,
Magma,
Surgeon,
Mo-Dettes,
Eve St. Jones,
The Trojans,
Schoolly D,
Joensuu 1685,
Graham Central Station,
Technova,
Visage,
Grauzone,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Reagan Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Whodini,
DJ Sneak,
Alison Limerick,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nils Olav,
Anthony Braxton,
Rakim,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Inner City,
the Sonics,
Lyres,
Essential Logic,
The Red Krayola,
Procol Harum,
Ultimate Spinach,
U.S. Maple,
Flipper,
Nik Kershaw,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.