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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Peter and Kerry to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terry Callier record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
Hashim,
Negative Approach,
Tommy Roe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alice Coltrane,
Albert Ayler,
Sound Behaviour,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Fuzztones,
The Monks,
Steve Hackett,
Fela Kuti,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Deepchord,
Hoover,
Anakelly,
Monolake,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Scrapy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Minutemen,
PIL,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Khruangbin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
A Certain Ratio,
Faraquet,
Metal Thangz,
Soulsonic Force,
The Fall,
Todd Terry,
Harpers Bizarre,
K-Klass,
the Bar-Kays,
Whodini,
The Star Department,
Ice-T,
Sonic Youth,
Ralphi Rosario,
Cal Tjader,
Ituana,
These Immortal Souls,
Urselle,
Public Enemy,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ten City,
Lou Christie,
Dead Boys,
ABC,
Byron Stingily,
Radio Birdman,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rod Modell,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eyeless In Gaza,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Tears for Fears,
Colin Newman,
Carl Craig,
Sugar Minott,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.