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 Yemen and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Michael McDonald 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 Yellowson to the jazz 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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Warsaw,
Scrapy,
The Real Kids,
Howard Jones,
Jeff Mills,
Youth Brigade,
Donald Byrd,
Rod Modell,
Darondo,
the Normal,
Gang Gang Dance,
Model 500,
Susan Cadogan,
Hasil Adkins,
The Modern Lovers,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Evens,
Colin Newman,
Yaz,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Crime,
Ronnie Foster,
Tommy Roe,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sparks,
David Bowie,
Bobby Sherman,
Franke,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
F. McDonald,
Sugar Minott,
Symarip,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
LL Cool J,
The Beau Brummels,
Soft Machine,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ludus,
Minutemen,
Barry Ungar,
Circle Jerks,
Avey Tare,
Man Parrish,
Ice-T,
Kurtis Blow,
Simply Red,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Stooges,
Lou Reed,
The Cure,
Visage,
Deakin,
Jerry's Kids,
The Fugs,
Guru Guru,
Marcia Griffiths,
Slick Rick,
Lakeside,
Anakelly,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.