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 Tajikistan and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lindisfarne to the rock 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 Rites of Spring. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stetsasonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Trojans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Rotary Connection,
Unrelated Segments,
Khruangbin,
Trumans Water,
Soul II Soul,
Fatback Band,
Television Personalities,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Idris Muhammad,
The Human League,
Skaos,
The Five Americans,
Todd Terry,
Jandek,
Hot Snakes,
Minny Pops,
Technova,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Niagra,
Spandau Ballet,
Marine Girls,
Royal Trux,
The Standells,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Desert Stars,
Circle Jerks,
48th St. Collective,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Wake,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nick Fraelich,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Babytalk,
Roxy Music,
Ornette Coleman,
Blake Baxter,
The Divine Comedy,
Joensuu 1685,
B.T. Express,
Con Funk Shun,
The Litter,
Bush Tetras,
Fad Gadget,
The Golliwogs,
kango's stein massive,
Black Moon,
The J.B.'s,
Model 500,
Sarah Menescal,
Erasure,
Gichy Dan,
Janne Schatter,
Althea and Donna,
Radiohead,
Pere Ubu,
Q65,
Symarip,
Junior Murvin,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.