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 the UAE and from Spokane.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Sisters of Mercy to the disco 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 Spoonie Gee. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Music Machine,
The Black Dice,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Dark Day,
Soulsonic Force,
Sun City Girls,
Negative Approach,
The New Christs,
Marvin Gaye,
Yusef Lateef,
Motorama,
Kurtis Blow,
Interpol,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dead Boys,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Barracudas,
K-Klass,
Peter and Kerry,
Alphaville,
Arthur Verocai,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Divine Comedy,
48th St. Collective,
Tropical Tobacco,
Radiohead,
Erasure,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
These Immortal Souls,
David Axelrod,
Eden Ahbez,
Ken Boothe,
Black Sheep,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Youth Brigade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hot Snakes,
Adolescents,
Traffic Nightmare,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kaleidoscope,
Barrington Levy,
Mars,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Glambeats Corp.,
Spandau Ballet,
Underground Resistance,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Flipper,
Buzzcocks,
Rosa Yemen,
Make Up,
Arcadia,
Sam Rivers,
Swell Maps,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.