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 Croatia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the punk 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 The Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Talk Talk,
Main Source,
The Velvet Underground,
Clear Light,
Quantec,
Crooked Eye,
Stereo Dub,
Monolake,
Rites of Spring,
Warren Ellis,
Mo-Dettes,
Guru Guru,
Babytalk,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Cowsills,
Barbara Tucker,
New Age Steppers,
Liliput,
Aswad,
Jacques Brel,
kango's stein massive,
Unrelated Segments,
Alison Limerick,
Crash Course in Science,
June Days,
LL Cool J,
T. Rex,
Excepter,
The Leaves,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Kinks,
F. McDonald,
CMW,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bauhaus,
Tomorrow,
Soulsonic Force,
The Gap Band,
Scientists,
MC5,
Graham Central Station,
The Zeros,
Brand Nubian,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
A Certain Ratio,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Piero Umiliani,
Cheater Slicks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ice-T,
Duran Duran,
Jerry's Kids,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rod Modell,
Loose Ends,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Angry Samoans,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ronan,
Bush Tetras,
Desert Stars,
Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners.
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.