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 Russia and from Taipei.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Yaz to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stockholm Monsters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oblivians,
Crime,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Black Pus,
Aloha Tigers,
Scan 7,
Popol Vuh,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Chris Corsano,
Cal Tjader,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Count Five,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Sonics,
Yusef Lateef,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Half Japanese,
Loose Ends,
Scrapy,
June of 44,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Move,
The Associates,
The Tremeloes,
Ituana,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Adolescents,
The Knickerbockers,
The Techniques,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mars,
Moss Icon,
Isaac Hayes,
Main Source,
Bob Dylan,
Little Man,
the Human League,
The Selecter,
The American Breed,
CMW,
Tres Demented,
The Gap Band,
Brass Construction,
Nirvana,
Gong,
Dorothy Ashby,
Massinfluence,
Joe Finger,
Crispy Ambulance,
Youth Brigade,
Man Parrish,
The Monks,
Saccharine Trust,
The Velvet Underground,
Surgeon,
Gabor Szabo,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Von Mondo,
FM Einheit,
Grauzone,
Pole,
Black Moon,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.