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 China and from Tehran.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Joe Smooth to the grime 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 Tropical Tobacco. All the underground hits.
All The Victims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Neon Judgement 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 an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Hashim,
Faust,
John Coltrane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Piero Umiliani,
Derrick May,
Parry Music,
Mark Hollis,
Pagans,
Lou Reed,
Zero Boys,
John Holt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Smoke,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
David Axelrod,
R.M.O.,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Blues Magoos,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Darondo,
The Evens,
The Black Dice,
Pet Shop Boys,
June Days,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mantronix,
Shuggie Otis,
Neu!,
Section 25,
The Monochrome Set,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Cameo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pantaleimon,
Judy Mowatt,
Juan Atkins,
Faraquet,
The Kinks,
Negative Approach,
Sam Rivers,
Moss Icon,
The Pretty Things,
Cal Tjader,
Jeff Lynne,
Public Image Ltd.,
Country Teasers,
Unwound,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Grass Roots,
the Normal,
The Litter,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Nirvana,
Matthew Halsall,
Ralphi Rosario,
DJ Sneak,
Anthony Braxton,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division.
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.