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 Mauritius and from Accra.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 rhodes 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 Electric Prunes to the disco 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 Mo-Dettes. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Smog,
Rotary Connection,
Absolute Body Control,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ultimate Spinach,
Junior Murvin,
Throbbing Gristle,
Saccharine Trust,
Mantronix,
Kerri Chandler,
Black Flag,
Lower 48,
Slick Rick,
Con Funk Shun,
Hardrive,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bobby Byrd,
Q and Not U,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Blake Baxter,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Sonics,
The Smoke,
Zero Boys,
Gregory Isaacs,
Peter & Gordon,
Grey Daturas,
Infiniti,
Bad Manners,
The Tremeloes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Easy Going,
Donny Hathaway,
Eric Copeland,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sun Ra,
Alice Coltrane,
Mission of Burma,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Angry Samoans,
Bang On A Can,
Stetsasonic,
Animal Collective,
The Motions,
Oblivians,
The Cure,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Red Krayola,
Banda Bassotti,
The Dirtbombs,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pulsallama,
Magma,
Gil Scott Heron,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Supertramp,
Flamin' Groovies,
In Retrospect,
The Move,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
ABC,
Don Cherry,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.