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 Panama and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 chamberlin 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 Adolescents to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dark Day,
Outsiders,
Gregory Isaacs,
Junior Murvin,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
the Soft Cell,
Symarip,
The Buckinghams,
Essential Logic,
ABBA,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Theoretical Girls,
Wire,
The Beau Brummels,
Basic Channel,
Sarah Menescal,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Roxette,
LL Cool J,
Letta Mbulu,
Beasts of Bourbon,
the Association,
Eve St. Jones,
Swell Maps,
The J.B.'s,
Joy Division,
Soul Sonic Force,
Dead Boys,
Bootsy Collins,
Chrome,
Pierre Henry,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Alice Coltrane,
The Gun Club,
The Cowsills,
This Heat,
Howard Jones,
The Electric Prunes,
The Monks,
Bobby Hutcherson,
JFA,
Joensuu 1685,
Absolute Body Control,
Metal Thangz,
Jesper Dahlback,
Nirvana,
Porter Ricks,
The United States of America,
Technova,
The Sonics,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Motorama,
R.M.O.,
Niagra,
Crash Course in Science,
T.S.O.L.,
Lakeside,
Eric Dolphy,
Camberwell Now,
Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants.
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.