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 Norway and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 organ 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 Newcleus 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 Traffic Nightmare. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Excepter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
OOIOO,
Ludus,
New Age Steppers,
Dual Sessions,
Amon Düül II,
Bobby Byrd,
Rosa Yemen,
Harpers Bizarre,
Erykah Badu,
kango's stein massive,
The Cowsills,
Blancmange,
Johnny Clarke,
Accadde A,
Masters at Work,
Reagan Youth,
Outsiders,
June of 44,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Gladiators,
DJ Style,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Iggy Pop,
Shuggie Otis,
Hardrive,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Reuben Wilson,
PIL,
Marmalade,
Grauzone,
Excepter,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
In Retrospect,
Funky Four + One,
Archie Shepp,
Davy DMX,
Wings,
Yusef Lateef,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Smiths,
Bang On A Can,
Desert Stars,
Khruangbin,
Sonny Sharrock,
Magazine,
Icehouse,
Wally Richardson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Loose Ends,
Joe Smooth,
Harmonia,
Matthew Bourne,
Shoche,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Motions,
The Real Kids,
Intrusion,
Toni Rubio,
Massinfluence,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.