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 Burkina and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Judy Mowatt to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Human League,
The Mummies,
Althea and Donna,
Eli Mardock,
The United States of America,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Leaves,
Echospace,
Hashim,
Darondo,
Leonard Cohen,
X-101,
the Soft Cell,
Rhythm & Sound,
The American Breed,
The Grass Roots,
The Fire Engines,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Panda Bear,
Maurizio,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scott Walker,
Alton Ellis,
Sällskapet,
The Trojans,
Bobby Byrd,
Royal Trux,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Duran Duran,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
a-ha,
The Music Machine,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dawn Penn,
The Techniques,
Zero Boys,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rakim,
Moby Grape,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Vogues,
Jacob Miller,
Fluxion,
Massinfluence,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
China Crisis,
Ken Boothe,
The Dave Clark Five,
Barrington Levy,
Freddie Wadling,
Ultravox,
Theoretical Girls,
The Slits,
Bob Dylan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.