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 Seychelles and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 sitar 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 ABBA to the jazz 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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Leaves record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Surgeon,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Fall,
the Bar-Kays,
Lucky Dragons,
Marine Girls,
John Cale,
Aaron Thompson,
Yazoo,
New Age Steppers,
Ronnie Foster,
Pet Shop Boys,
Colin Newman,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lalo Schifrin,
Grauzone,
The Dirtbombs,
Audionom,
Ralphi Rosario,
Flipper,
Warren Ellis,
Thompson Twins,
The Slackers,
The Tremeloes,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Y Pants,
Drexciya,
Robert Wyatt,
JFA,
cv313,
Rites of Spring,
Camberwell Now,
Chris & Cosey,
Black Bananas,
Average White Band,
Saccharine Trust,
Aswad,
Sound Behaviour,
Minnie Riperton,
Section 25,
Young Marble Giants,
The Smiths,
Bush Tetras,
Neil Young,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
New Order,
H. Thieme,
Gichy Dan,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ludus,
Deakin,
Man Parrish,
Skriet,
Erasure,
Pantaleimon,
Camouflage,
Todd Terry,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.