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 Uzbekistan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar 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 Minny Pops to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott Heron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Neon Judgement 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
New Age Steppers,
Chrome,
Amon Düül,
Soft Machine,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rakim,
Duran Duran,
Pagans,
Scott Walker,
David Axelrod,
cv313,
Public Enemy,
Lungfish,
Jandek,
Mary Jane Girls,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Liliput,
Bobbi Humphrey,
John Holt,
Ronan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
U.S. Maple,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Moleskins,
Althea and Donna,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Panda Bear,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Associates,
Procol Harum,
Bizarre Inc.,
Scion,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Radio Birdman,
Sugar Minott,
Crash Course in Science,
Con Funk Shun,
Minny Pops,
Wings,
Al Stewart,
Loose Ends,
Matthew Halsall,
Roger Hodgson,
The Shadows of Knight,
Accadde A,
Flamin' Groovies,
Henry Cow,
Magma,
Eli Mardock,
Amon Düül II,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Human League,
Arcadia,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Fall,
June of 44,
Aural Exciters,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Joyce Sims,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Dorothy Ashby,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.