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 Italy and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Lou Reed 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 DJ Style to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
10cc,
Marcia Griffiths,
Patti Smith,
John Lydon,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Associates,
Lakeside,
Stereo Dub,
Robert Görl,
Bluetip,
David McCallum,
The Zeros,
Byron Stingily,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Wyatt,
Wally Richardson,
Moss Icon,
David Axelrod,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Panda Bear,
Nirvana,
Fugazi,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gregory Isaacs,
Oblivians,
Pylon,
F. McDonald,
Derrick Morgan,
Amon Düül II,
The Names,
The Flesh Eaters,
Aloha Tigers,
The Angels of Light,
The Barracudas,
Television Personalities,
Bootsy Collins,
The Move,
The Saints,
Terrestrial Tones,
Marine Girls,
Bobby Womack,
Procol Harum,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Simply Red,
Icehouse,
The Standells,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kaleidoscope,
Cameo,
Camberwell Now,
Animal Collective,
CMW,
Vladislav Delay,
Quadrant,
Aaron Thompson,
The Leaves,
Ponytail,
The New Christs,
Scratch Acid,
MDC,
Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes.
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.