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 Macedonia and from Accra.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 harpsichord 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Seeds. All the underground hits.
All The Neon Judgement tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler 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 rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Girls At Our Best!,
Thompson Twins,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Delon & Dalcan,
Black Pus,
Aswad,
Derrick May,
Erykah Badu,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
China Crisis,
Eli Mardock,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ludus,
New York Dolls,
KRS-One,
Skaos,
L. Decosne,
Toni Rubio,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jeru the Damaja,
X-101,
The Leaves,
Ronnie Foster,
The Mojo Men,
Mars,
Nils Olav,
Television,
Massinfluence,
Barclay James Harvest,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Metal Thangz,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Pop Group,
Scientists,
The Star Department,
Negative Approach,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Siglo XX,
Dead Boys,
Absolute Body Control,
Roger Hodgson,
The Music Machine,
the Soft Cell,
Matthew Halsall,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Cure,
Ronan,
Vainqueur,
Ice-T,
The Smiths,
MC5,
Peter and Kerry,
cv313,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jacob Miller,
Arab on Radar,
Clear Light,
Pole,
Cal Tjader,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.