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 Uruguay and from Edmonton.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Vogues to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
Michelle Simonal,
This Heat,
Eden Ahbez,
David Axelrod,
Gabor Szabo,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rod Modell,
Bob Dylan,
Icehouse,
Whodini,
David McCallum,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Siglo XX,
Liliput,
Joe Smooth,
Alison Limerick,
Soul II Soul,
Scan 7,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scott Walker,
PIL,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roger Hodgson,
Hoover,
Aaron Thompson,
Jandek,
The Flesh Eaters,
Eli Mardock,
Ronnie Foster,
Yellowson,
Grauzone,
DJ Sneak,
Janne Schatter,
E-Dancer,
World's Most,
Kerri Chandler,
Rotary Connection,
Groovy Waters,
The American Breed,
The Count Five,
Maurizio,
Crispy Ambulance,
Suburban Knight,
Susan Cadogan,
Kenny Larkin,
Surgeon,
Pylon,
Pierre Henry,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Blues Magoos,
Lightning Bolt,
Das Ding,
Babytalk,
Skaos,
Johnny Clarke,
Cybotron,
Gang Starr,
Dave Gahan,
Andrew Hill,
Moby Grape,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.