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 Kyrgyzstan and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Techniques to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Junior Murvin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra 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?
Brand Nubian,
The Electric Prunes,
The Monochrome Set,
The Cowsills,
Franke,
The Gun Club,
Easy Going,
Absolute Body Control,
Man Eating Sloth,
Mandrill,
The Shadows of Knight,
Outsiders,
Roxette,
Gang Green,
Sugar Minott,
Das Ding,
Banda Bassotti,
Boogie Down Productions,
Michelle Simonal,
Wally Richardson,
Rakim,
Scrapy,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Depeche Mode,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sun City Girls,
Tres Demented,
Donald Byrd,
The Smiths,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Suburban Knight,
the Sonics,
Buzzcocks,
Deadbeat,
Sister Nancy,
Suicide,
Soulsonic Force,
Scientists,
Khruangbin,
Rites of Spring,
Young Marble Giants,
The Martian,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeff Lynne,
Au Pairs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Names,
Oblivians,
Icehouse,
Panda Bear,
The Busters,
Public Image Ltd.,
Niagra,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kerri Chandler,
Wings,
Eve St. Jones,
Minnie Riperton,
Lou Christie,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fad Gadget,
Joe Smooth,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.