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 East Timor and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kevin Saunderson to the dance 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 The Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Girls At Our Best! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
Absolute Body Control,
Deakin,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Vainqueur,
the Slits,
Jacques Brel,
Nils Olav,
Banda Bassotti,
Derrick Morgan,
X-102,
Flipper,
Colin Newman,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Can,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Iggy Pop,
The Vogues,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Grauzone,
Isaac Hayes,
Smog,
Ornette Coleman,
Tim Buckley,
Interpol,
Gang Starr,
Depeche Mode,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lyres,
Joy Division,
Audionom,
Chris & Cosey,
Archie Shepp,
Davy DMX,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Black Dice,
New Age Steppers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Barclay James Harvest,
John Coltrane,
Big Daddy Kane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Monochrome Set,
Delon & Dalcan,
Loose Ends,
Fela Kuti,
Soulsonic Force,
Gang Green,
Howard Jones,
Quantec,
Buzzcocks,
Infiniti,
The Grass Roots,
Boogie Down Productions,
Blossom Toes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ronan,
the Fania All-Stars,
Echospace,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.