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 France and from Columbus.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lyon.
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 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 FM Einheit to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Patti Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Quadrant,
Bush Tetras,
The Litter,
OOIOO,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Star Department,
Erasure,
World's Most,
These Immortal Souls,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Altered Images,
Derrick Morgan,
Michelle Simonal,
Mantronix,
Gang of Four,
Sandy B,
The Walker Brothers,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pussy Galore,
Rod Modell,
Silicon Teens,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kool Moe Dee,
Siglo XX,
Camouflage,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Japan,
Liliput,
Prince Buster,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sixth Finger,
Graham Central Station,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Porter Ricks,
ABC,
Soul II Soul,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Neil Young,
Neu!,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Hashim,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The J.B.'s,
Yellowson,
The Young Rascals,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Funky Four + One,
The Blackbyrds,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Surgeon,
Nirvana,
John Lydon,
Fatback Band,
Audionom,
Radio Birdman,
Blancmange,
Theoretical Girls,
Derrick May,
Gerry Rafferty,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.